Operational Finance Director

About the role

Our Operational Finance Director is a high-horsepower, systems-oriented leader who will architect and operationalize Amca's annual planning and performance management infrastructure across a rapidly expanding network of factories. This role will build bottoms-up annual operating plans tied directly to Amca's core value drivers - new product introduction and operational improvements - partner with general managers to execute against those plans, and create the systems, reporting cadence, and organizational frameworks required to scale strategic finance in a highly acquisitive environment. This individual will function as both architect and operator - driving accountability, strategic clarity, and measurable value creation across the business. This role is part of Amca's Operational Finance function and reports directly to Matt Soulas (CFO), with frequent interaction with the executive team and general managers across Amca's growing network of factories. This role is an excellent fit for someone who is smart, analytically rigorous, and willing to hustle, and who has an intense personal interest in building the financial infrastructure that drives accountability and value creation in a high-growth aerospace platform. The successful candidate will be both deeply thoughtful about financial planning and performance management as well as biased toward taking discrete, high-quality action that benefits Amca's factories and overall business.

Responsibilities

• You will own the development of Amca's annual financial plan across our HQ and factories - building granular, zero-based budgets tied directly to key value drivers including new products introduction and operational improvements
• You will partner directly with general managers and business leaders to pressure-test assumptions, identify opportunities, and translate strategy into measurable financial targets
• You will drive in-year performance management against the annual plan, including monthly and quarterly reporting of actuals vs. targets, root-cause analysis of underperformance, and proactive course correction alongside general managers
• You will build operational scoreboards and KPI dashboards that create accountability and real-time visibility across factories
• You will partner with the CFO and executive leadership team to templatize and institutionalize Amca's annual planning process across current and future factories
• You will develop scalable planning frameworks, operating cadences, and reporting structures that can be rapidly deployed across our new factories
• You will help build Amca's strategic finance function from the ground up, establishing best practices for budgeting, forecasting, KPI tracking, capital allocation, and performance management in a highly acquisitive environment
• You will support broader corporate initiatives including factory integration, scenario planning, board and investor reporting, and long-term value creation planning
• You will identify process, systems, and analytical infrastructure improvements that increase speed, precision, and decision-making quality across the organization
• You will serve as a force multiplier for Amca leadership by connecting strategic priorities to factory-level financial execution and ensuring the business remains rigorously focused on the highest-value opportunities

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience with demonstrated success in a high-pressure, analytically rigorous role - strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, or operational finance
• Exceptional financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and operational analytics capabilities - you build models that drive decisions, not just decks
• Deep understanding of value creation levers in industrial, manufacturing, or aerospace businesses preferred
• Ability to synthesize complex operational and financial data into actionable insights and communicate them clearly to operators and executives
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with operators and executive leadership - you earn trust through quality of work and follow-through, not just seniority
• Ability to build repeatable systems and scalable frameworks in high-growth, multi-entity e

Benefits

Additional Information

Amca is building America's new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations. To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

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