Head of Accounting, Freeform

$100-180k

+ Stock options

Excel
Quickbooks
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

Office located in Hawthorne, CA

Freeform

Metal 3D printing factories

Be an early applicant

Freeform

Metal 3D printing factories

21-100 employees

B2BManufacturingPrinting

Be an early applicant

$100-180k

+ Stock options

Excel
Quickbooks
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

Office located in Hawthorne, CA

21-100 employees

B2BManufacturingPrinting

Company mission

To make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and unlock the future of innovation.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or business administration
  • 5+ years of professional experience in accounting or finance

Desirable

  • Formal experience as a Head of Accounting or 8+ years of industry experience
  • Experience with finance and accounting as it relates to manufacturing, capital equipment, and/or hardware
  • Experience working in an engineering and/or tech startup environment
  • Advanced degree in business, finance, or accounting
  • Certified Professional Accountant (CPA) highly preferred
  • Experience in technical procurement
  • Experience working directly with C-level executives
  • “No job too big or small” mindset
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Experience with QuickBooks

What the job involves

  • As Freeform’s Head of Accounting, you will contribute to company-wide activities regarding finance, accounting, and purchasing
  • You will perform a wide variety of duties including spend tracking/forecasting, invoice payment, payroll, month-end closing, and tax compliance
  • You will also work with the engineering team on purchasing activities including supplier interaction, managing PO’s, and price negotiations
  • As Freeform scales, there will be tremendous opportunities to impact the operations, finance, and supply chain teams, so this role is perfect for a motivated professional looking to join an exciting startup with a global vision
  • Forecast and track monthly, quarterly, and yearly spend across operations, personnel, consulting, and engineering/R&D spend
  • Own all payment related activities such as vendor payments, leases, payroll, and more
  • Perform month-end closing; reconcile accounts payable and accounts receivable activities
  • Identify, onboard, and manage vendors and suppliers; perform price and contract negotiations; manage purchase orders
  • Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines
  • Maintain tax documentation and ensure business taxes are properly categorized and filed
  • Analyze spend and recommend ideas to C-Suite to reduce costs related to categories such as capital equipment, industrial supplies, chemicals, raw material, as well as non-engineering categories
  • Provide financial reporting for board meetings, investor relations, and venture capital raises
  • Act as a force multiplier to executives as it relates to finance and accounting best practices; strategize and execute ways to improve operational efficiency, reduce spend, and lower costs

Our take

There is a huge amount of demand for precision metal fabrication in future-focused industries such as rocketry and vehicle manufacturing, but legacy production techniques are too slow and inflexible to meet the requirements of rapidly changing designs in the most innovative firms. Enter Freeform Future, a company which builds metal 3D printing factories to allow manufacturers to swiftly and efficiently go from idea to mass production.

Founded by engineers with extensive experience at SpaceX, Freeform seeks to replace existing metal fabrication works - typified with heavy reliance on manual labour and legacy processes - with 3D printers and automated software technologies. Rather than needing to train a large workforce on production techniques, Freeform will be able to print almost any metal item at production scale on demand, with a turnaround time of days rather than weeks.

Though having only emerged from stealth in 2023, Freeform has some large-scale customers including autonomous trucking firm Embark and rocket part manufacturer, Ursa Major. After raising significant funding in early 2023, the company is moving from prototype to production, scaling up its operations to meet the growing demand for rapidly produced, high-quality metal components.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

57% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Feb 2023

$45m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $45m

Company benefits

  • Significant stock option packages
  • 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (premium PPO and HMO options)
  • Life insurance
  • Traditional and Roth 401(k)
  • Relocation assistance provided
  • Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave and extended transition back to work for the birthing parent
  • Free daily catered lunch and dinner, and fully stocked kitchenette
  • Casual dress, flexible work hours, and regular catered team building events

Company HQ

Hawthorne, CA

Leadership

Previously was Propulsion Development Manager at SpaceX. Before that was a Solid Propulsion Systems Engineer for NASA.

Thomas Ronacher

(President)

Before co-founding Freeform, was VP Hardware Engineering at Hyperloop One and Thermal System Lead for Virgin Galactic. Prior to that was Principal Design Engineer with Seal Science and Senior Propulsion Analyst at SpaceX.

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