Space Jobs for Finance Professionals

Showing the 34 roles whose requirements name no degree, every country. See every role

Pay by specialty

Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.

What the roles ask for

Drawn from the requirement lines of 184 out of 281 open roles for finance and accounting professionals, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.

• Name years of experience134
• Name a CPA or other accounting qualification19
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition19
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)17
• Name a security clearance14
• Ask for a professional license9
• Ask for a certification4
• Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)2

Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 5 years.

Who hires finance and accounting professionals in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Array Labs	1	$150k–$200k/yr
Hubble Network	1	$250k–$350k/yr
Cowboy Space	1	$83k–$91k/yr
Amazon Leo	1	Not stated
True Anomaly	6	$60k–$345k/yr
Momentus	1	$160k–$180k/yr
E-Space	3	$115k–$125k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems	2	$55.3k–$235k/yr
Kymeta	1	$170k–$210k/yr
K2 Space	3	$52k–$130k/yr
Xona Space Systems	1	$250k–$350k/yr
Loft Federal	1	$180k–$230k/yr
Quindar	1	$235k–$275k/yr
Loft Orbital	1	$140k–$160k/yr
Viasat	4	$104k–$165k/yr
Astra	1	Not stated
Blue Origin	23	$58.2k–$174k/yr
Impulse Space	5	$100k–$185k/yr
Quantum Space	1	$150k–$190k/yr
Revolution Space	1	$170k–$190k/yr
HawkEye 360	7	$85k–$235k/yr
Planet	4	$107k–$151k/yr
BlackSky	4	$120k–$155k/yr
Gravitics	2	$90k–$215k/yr
CesiumAstro	4	$112k–$132k/yr
Spire Global	1	$131k–$171k/yr
Voyager Technologies	2	$48.9k–$75k/yr
Northwood Space	5	$112k–$184k/yr
GITAI	1	$180k–$250k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton	1	$69.3k–$158k/yr
Boeing	1	$178k–$240k/yr
Sierra Space	6	$76.4k–$191k/yr
Relativity Space	5	$96k–$238k/yr
Vast	2	$92.2k–$148k/yr
Firefly Aerospace	1	Not stated
Thales Alenia Space	11	Not stated
Eutelsat	7	Not stated
ICEYE	4	Not stated
OHB	4	Not stated
The Aerospace Corporation	3	Not stated
Airbus Defence and Space	3	Not stated
Axiom Space	3	Not stated
ArianeGroup	2	Not stated
Astroscale	2	Not stated
Constellr	2	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	2	Not stated
German Aerospace Center (DLR)	1	Not stated
European Space Agency (ESA)	1	Not stated
HyImpulse	1	Not stated
Kepler Communications	1	Not stated
Rocket Factory Augsburg	1	Not stated
Telespazio	1	Not stated
Venus Aerospace	1	Not stated
Katalyst Space Technologies	2	$100k–$220k/yr
SES	13	$87.9k–$138k/yr
RTX	3	$68.9k–$205k/yr
SpaceX	23	$62.4k–$250k/yr
ispace	6	Not stated
L3Harris	4	$67k–$171k/yr
AST SpaceMobile	1	Not stated
Lockheed Martin	35	$55.7k–$229k/yr
Vantor	3	$78k–$180k/yr
Mission Control Space Services	1	$100k–$120k/yr
General Dynamics Mission Systems	1	$118k/yr
Terran Orbital	1	$70k–$85k/yr
United Launch Alliance	2	$48k–$78.9k/yr
Northrop Grumman	10	$65.5k–$220k/yr
Virgin Galactic	1	$300k–$360k/yr
Iridium	2	$105k–$140k/yr
Rocket Lab	6	$54.1k–$165k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)	3	$43.7k–$102k/yr
Amentum	3	Not stated
Ursa Major	2	$52k–$300k/yr
Teledyne	2	$77.9k–$129k/yr
Astranis	2	$70k–$100k/yr

Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.

Finance or Accounting Professional salary by employer

What each employer's own postings pay finance and accounting professionals, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.

• Lockheed Martin Finance or Accounting Professional salarymedian $116k/yr, 35 open roles
• Blue Origin Finance or Accounting Professional salarymedian $125k/yr, 23 open roles
• SpaceX Finance or Accounting Professional salarymedian $148k/yr, 23 open roles
• Northrop Grumman Finance or Accounting Professional salarymedian $118k/yr, 10 open roles

How each employer checks you

For every employer currently hiring finance and accounting professionals: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.

Amazon Leo1 open

Assessment

Amazon's interview loop. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Blue Origin23 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Booz Allen Hamilton1 open

Assessment

Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Thales Alenia Space11 open

Assessment

Thales interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Airbus Defence and Space3 open

Assessment

Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply

Interview

Interview

European Space Agency (ESA)1 open

Assessment

ESA's pre-screening and panel interview. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Credentials

You complete a basic medical screening for the ESA Medical Officer and a basic background screening run by an external party; in a second stage ESA contacts your referees and verifies your diploma. Source

Lockheed Martin35 open

Assessment

Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Northrop Grumman10 open

Assessment

The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)3 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for finance and accounting professionals, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.

What our research measures about programs & business work

Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.

• Who is hiring2,351 open roles (14.8% of the space roles we read) at 134 employers, 948 of them posted in the last 30 days.
• Where the jobs are4.1% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
• Who can apply59.4% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 31.7% name a security clearance.
• Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (15%) and Jira (8%).
• Degrees and experience4.8% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 25.0% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
• Pay transparency58.8% of the postings state their pay, at a median $148,000 a year.
• Internships and entry level95 open roles are for someone starting out (4.0% of its open roles).
• Shifts, weekends and travel15.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 17.1% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
• What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (77.6% of them), about a security clearance (47.7% of them), your GPA (25.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (24.4% of them), your salary expectations (26.5% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (41.7% of them).