Finance and accounting
Space Jobs for Finance Professionals
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 280 open roles for finance and accounting professionals on 75 space industry employers, including Array Labs, Hubble Network and Cowboy Space; typical pay across them is $103k to $229k a year (median $126k), topped by $360k a year advertised at Virgin Galactic.
Senior General Ledger Accountant (m/f/d) (opens the job details)
Isar Aerospace · Programs & Business · Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany· 7mo agoDetails
Senior Group Accountant, Finance (m/f/d) (opens the job details)
Isar Aerospace · Programs & Business · Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany· 7mo agoDetails
Measured from 171 distinct posted rates, across 51 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 95 of the 280 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire finance and accounting professionals to plan budgets, keep the books and price the government contracts much of the industry runs on. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for finance and accounting professionals
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 22:02 UTCListed here: Isar Aerospace roles. See every employer
Accounting and controllership
2 openKeep the books: ledgers, payables and receivables, cost accounting and financial reporting.
Senior General Ledger Accountant (m/f/d) (opens the job details)
Isar Aerospace · Programs & Business · Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany· 7mo agoDetails
Senior Group Accountant, Finance (m/f/d) (opens the job details)
Isar Aerospace · Programs & Business · Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany· 7mo agoDetails
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
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 195 out of 280 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 experience138
- Name a CPA or other accounting qualification22
- Name a security clearance21
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition18
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)17
- Ask for a professional license10
- 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
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.
- Assessment
- Amazon's interview loop. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Thales interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- 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
- Assessment
- Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- 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.
Students and recent graduates: 14 open space internships for finance and accounting professionals.
In the US, by state
- California71
- Colorado46
- Virginia26
- Washington26
- Texas14
- Florida11
Space industry jobs by US state
In the US, by metro area
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).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do finance and accounting professionals earn in the space industry?
Going by the 171 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for finance and accounting professionals (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $103k–$229k/yr and the median is $126k/yr. The top posted figure is $360k/yr, at Virgin Galactic. 95 of the 280 open roles for finance and accounting professionals state no pay, so check each listing.
Do I need a CPA for a space finance job?
Accounting and controller roles often ask for a CPA or work toward one; financial analyst roles usually ask for a degree in finance or accounting and years of analysis, and experience with government contracts or cost accounting helps. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 195 open roles for finance and accounting professionals whose requirements we read, 3 a master's, 153 at least a bachelor's and 39 name no degree.
What does a finance or accounting professional do at a space company?
A finance professional at a space company plans and tracks the money behind programs, factories and launches: financial planning and analysis, accounting and controllership, cost estimating and pricing for contract bids, tax, treasury and payroll. Work on government contracts adds its own cost accounting rules.
How do space companies hire finance and accounting professionals?
Each employer runs its own hiring, and each listing says what it asks for: the degree or the hands-on experience, the location, and for export-controlled work in the US, often U.S. person status. Of the employers hiring finance and accounting professionals now, European Space Agency (ESA) says it checks credentials such as degrees. The section on how each employer checks you quotes each guide with its source.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Array Labs, Hubble Network, Cowboy Space and Amazon Leo among them), and each employer's page here covers who they are and how they hire. A real employer never charges you to apply, never asks you to buy equipment and never interviews you only by chat app.
Which space companies pay finance and accounting professionals the most?
Of the 4 employers whose postings for finance and accounting professionals state enough pay for a figure, the highest medians are SpaceX ($148k/yr), Blue Origin ($125k/yr) and Northrop Grumman ($118k/yr). A median is of what each employer's open roles post today, by the same formula for every employer.
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