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Sr. Financial Analyst - Manufacturing

Harbinger Motors
California
About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

Harbinger Motors is looking for an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst - Manufacturing with a strong accounting background in cost accounting and operational finance. This role will be responsible for labor modeling, overhead absorption, standard cost variance analysis, inventory valuation, and month-end close support for our manufacturing operations. This role requires advanced analytical skills, extensive experience in manufacturing cost accounting, a thorough understanding of GAAP, and the ability to influence financial decision-making across factory operations.

What You’ll Do

  • Labor Modeling & Efficiency Tracking – Build and maintain labor models to track workforce efficiency across manufacturing lines; identify trends and surface insights to operations leadership.
  • Overhead Absorption – Calculate and monitor overhead absorption rates; investigate and explain over/under-absorption variances on a monthly basis.
  • Standard Cost Variance Analysis – Perform detailed purchase price, usage, and efficiency variance analysis; collaborate with operations to understand root causes and drive cost improvements.
  • Inventory Valuation, Roll-Forward & Accruals – Maintain accurate inventory valuation and prepare monthly roll-forwards and accruals across all inventory categories:
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration – Work closely with Accounts Payable, Operations, Engineering, and Logistics to ensure accurate recording of manufacturing costs and transactions.
  • Audit & Process Improvement – Assist with financial audits and recommend procedural improvements to ensure manufacturing accounting conforms to GAAP.
  • Special Projects – Assist with various special projects as required by the Accounting & Finance leadership team.

Who You Are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
  • 5+ years of relevant accounting experience.
  • CPA/CPA Eligibility preferred, but not required.
  • Proven experience in cost accounting, standard costing, inventory valuation, and variance analysis.
  • NetSuite experience preferred.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, capable of managing multiple projects with tight deadlines.
  • Hands-on experience with inventory roll-forwards across RM, WIP, FG, and In-Transit categories.
  • Familiarity with scrap tracking, MRB processes, or factory reporting a strong plus.
  • Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and ERP/MRP systems.

Key Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
  • Early-stage Stock Options
  • Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
  • Annual Vacation Bonus
  • Wellness & Fertility Benefits
  • Cell Phone Stipend
  • Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range

$90,000—$120,000 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].

Candidate Data Privacy

Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.
Posted 2026-08-21

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