Financial Accountant

Dawn Aerospace develops space propulsion systems and space transportation technology, operating across New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. As the business continues to scale internationally, we are looking for a Financial Accountant to support financial reporting, entity consolidation, budgeting, and process improvement across a growing multi-entity environment.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys solving problems, improving systems, and working closely with operational teams in a technically complex business, based in our Christchurch office (New Zealand).

About the Role

You will work across core financial reporting and business operations, helping bring structure, accuracy, and clarity to a fast-moving engineering-led environment.

The role includes responsibility for month-end and year-end close processes, multi-entity consolidation, budgeting support, and identifying opportunities to improve finance systems and processes.

You will also work closely with engineering, operations, and commercial teams, helping translate financial information into practical business insight.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Control

• Deliver accurate and timely month-end and year-end close processes
• Prepare and review financial reporting in accordance with IFRS
• Support consolidation across multiple international entities
• Maintain strong financial controls and reporting discipline

Planning & Analysis

• Support budgeting and forecasting activities
• Analyse financial performance and provide practical insights
• Identify risks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement

Systems & Process Improvement

• Work within and improve ERP-driven finance processes
• Improve reporting efficiency and financial workflows
• Build and maintain robust Excel-based financial models and analysis

Collaboration

• Work closely with non-finance teams across the business
• Communicate financial information clearly and pragmatically
• Contribute to a collaborative, low-ego team environment

About You

• CA qualified (or working towards qualification)
• Approximately 4–5 years’ experience, likely from a Big 4 or mid-tier accounting background
• Strong grounding in financial accounting and IFRS
• Experience with month-end, year-end, and multi-entity environments
• Exposure to budgeting and forecasting processes
• Strong Excel capability and confidence working with ERP systems
• Comfortable working in an evolving environment where priorities can shift
• Practical, detail-oriented, and able to balance accuracy with pace
• Good sense of humour and willingness to get stuck in

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to work inside a globally operating aerospace company where finance is closely connected to engineering, manufacturing, and operational decision-making.

Rather than operating in a narrow corporate silo, you will gain broad exposure across financial reporting, systems, operations, and international business activities within a highly technical environment.

If you enjoy ownership, problem-solving, and working with smart people solving difficult problems, we’d like to hear from you.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Dawn Aerospace, we believe that diverse teams build better solutions. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences are valued and supported to do their best work.

About Dawn Aerospace

Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation company with a purpose.
Our mission is to enable the next generation of space users by providing more sustainable and scalable ways to access and move around in space. We believe this access, in the form of a transportation network, will fundamentally change what’s possible from space. We currently focus on three areas of space transportation:

• In-space propulsion
  We're a leading supplier of turnkey green propulsion systems for various classes of satellites. Our systems utilise safe, accessible propellants and we have over 170 of these propulsion units on more than 40 operational satellites already. A further 200 units are in production.
• In-space servicing
  Coupled with our propulsion expertise, we are ensuring that our customers' satellites are refuellable. In the coming years, Dawn will offer a refueling service to enable life extension of customer satellites. This new market is aligned with our sustainability goal to ensue a clean and safe space for everyone! 
• Spaceplane
  We are developing the fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever to take off from a runway, combining the extreme performance of rocket propulsion with the reusability of conventional airplanes to enable high-frequency, low-cost access to sub-orbital space.

Our international teams are distributed across four locations: the Netherlands, France, New Zealand, and the USA.

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