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VP / SVP of Finance (Early CFO Track)

Singularity Defense Corp· Finance
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Gardena, CAFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior-most finance leader reporting to the CEO, with a path to CFO, responsible for end-to-end finance operations and enabling hardware production scale.

Responsibilities

  • Own all finance functions end-to-end: FP&A, accounting, treasury, controls, tax, audit, and financial reporting
  • Build the financial roadmap from first contract through mass production (10,000s of units/year) to cash flow positive
  • Prepare the company for venture fundraise — support equity raises, structure and close debt financing, and own diligence from data room to close
  • Structure and manage the full debt stack for a scaling hardware business: facilities and real estate financing, equipment financing, and project-based/BOM and working capital facilities
  • Own the financial mechanics of US Government contracts — contract structures, milestone billing, cash flow timing, and compliant cost accounting
  • Own budgeting across the company; defend the operating plan and tie it to program and hiring decisions
  • Be the single accountable owner of burn, runway, and cash with robust spend controls and forecasting cadence
  • Build the financial infrastructure (systems, processes, team) to scale a capital-intensive, vertically integrated hardware business
  • Own unit economics through the production ramp: BOM cost tracking, cost-down roadmaps, gross margin planning, and inventory/working capital management
  • Serve as a cross-functional partner providing financial clarity to engineering, ops, and program leadership
  • Support investor and board materials; produce metrics, models, and financial narrative
  • Manage the cap table, equity administration, banking relationships, and debt facilities
  • Build financial models and scenario plans for growth, downside, and acceleration
  • Recruit, hire, and lead a high-caliber finance team

Qualifications

  • Hardware production finance — direct experience taking a hardware production program to cash flow positive, from development through volume manufacturing
  • US Government contracts — hands-on experience with financial aspects of USG contracts: structures, billing, cash flow, and compliance
  • Debt & equity fluency — track record structuring debt (facilities, equipment, project-based/BOM, venture and growth debt) and fluency in growth-stage VC financing; early-stage fundraising experience a plus
  • Core finance depth — banking and/or accounting background with hands-on familiarity with debt and equity financing and scaling a business

Skills

Required:Finance leadershipFinancial modeling & forecasting

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Equity / equity-like incentives
  • Healthcare/dental/vision benefits (as applicable)
  • 401(k) or equivalent retirement plan (if offered)
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Opportunity to influence a hardware production scale-up in Aerospace & Defense
  • Hybrid work environment in Gardena, CA (onsite in Gardena)
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Singularity Defense Corp

Singularity is answering humanity’s call to engineer counter-weapon systems at scale. We build to protect people on the battlefield and at home.

counter-weapon systemsair defensesoftware & GNCbuild to protect peopledeploymentmanufacturingtest engineeringembedded software
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