CubCrafters Career Opportunities
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Responsible for crafting effective financial strategy, providing appropriate metrics, developing best practice accounting processes and strong GAAP technical knowledge.
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Controller or Finance Manager role responsible for month end close, preparing financial statements, variance analysis and budget/forecast.
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Financial accounting role in manufacturing company involved in COGS, inventory accounting/analysis and product line profitability.
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Director of Finance / Controller
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Strong technical knowledge. Strategic thinking. Excellent leadership skills. If this describes you, consider aligning your career with CubCrafters. Here's why: Yakima, Washington offers a neighborly small-town culture, a low cost of living and stress-free commuting. It's also a paradise for outdoor sports enthusiasts. Relocation assistance may be available to highly qualified candidates.

Founded in 1980, CubCrafters builds the world's best utility and sport airplanes. Having begun as the world's leading Super Cub rebuilder and outfitter, CubCrafters now manufactures its own designs. We are currently the only aircraft manufacturer in the nation to produce aircraft in three different FAA certification categories, all under an FAA-approved quality assurance program. Though CubCrafters' roots are in the 60-year history of classic "tail dragger" aviation its products and services are clearly recognized in the industry as leading edge with many industry firsts. 

Video: At CubCrafters we understand that, in order to build great airplanes, we have to build a great airplane company.

The Requirements

To be a good fit for the Director of Finance / Controller opportunity, you will have:
  • A degree from a four-year university in accounting, business administration, or business management.
  • 5+ years of progressively increased financial management experience with at least controller-level responsibility and experience. Quick question for you - click here
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Good technical skills, including a strong understanding of GAAP.
  • Experience in using sophisticated ERP/MRP systems; familiarity with Epicor would be a plus.
  • Demonstrated skill in developing key performance indicators and presenting and explaining financial performance to internal and external users.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and familiarity with all current computer communication tools.
  • Strong organizational skills and good personal work discipline.
  • A results orientation, a strategic mindset, and effective planning skills.
Top candidates also will have:
  • CPA certification.
  • A "business partner" mentality and motivation to work closely with the President and senior leadership team on effective strategy development and decision making.
  • Experience working with private ownership and/or other outside investment.
  • General aviation experience.


Pictured: CubCrafters quality requires both expert handcrafting and state-of-the-art manufacturing technology.

The Role

Reporting directly to the President, you will supervise a team that includes a Controller and an additional five accounting resources. As CubCrafters has grown its need for more sophisticated financial strategy and more targeted and accurate metrics have grown. You will be the senior manager responsible for crafting effective financial strategy, providing appropriate and needed metrics, and bringing accounting best-practices to the company. You'll also play a role in developing overall company strategy, but especially in crafting and implementing financial procedures to improve and maintain the financial health of the company.

Your responsibilities will include:
  • At a top level, participating in crafting annual financial strategy then drive execution of same.
  • Oversight of, and responsibility for, all accounting transactional activities via oversight and management of Controller and accounting staff. You'll be responsible for optimizing accounting department organization, staffing, and efficiency. Quick question for you - click here
  • Maintaining awareness of cash account balances and provide cash forecasting.
  • Overseeing and ensuring the timely delivery of:
    • financial statements on a monthly basis, including financial and operating metrics for the company to include all profit centers, business units, and operating entities;
    • management and "key metrics" reports and analyses;
    • all tax documentation and regulatory filings as required.
  • Driving the process of documenting all accounting process and procedures as a basis for staff training and standardizing procedures.
  • Leading development of accurate COGS as a basis for analyzing profitability and strategic product line decisions.
  • Managing production of the annual budget and projections.
  • Overseeing the various company insurance relationships.
  • Assuming fiduciary responsibility for 401(k) program.
  • Supporting the CEO in managing and facilitating potential outside investments and funding projects.
  • Handling other duties/projects as assigned.
Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Pictured: The Carbon Cub has redefined expectations for backcountry aircraft. It has taken the fundamentally superior design of the Piper Super Cub and reinvented it using 21st Century materials and computer-aided design. We offer three variants: Carbon Cub SS (a production Light Sport Aircraft), Carbon Cub FX (an innovative Builder Assist E-AB aircraft), and Carbon Cub EX (aircraft kit). Carbon Cub has been designed for off-airport operation with a powerful engine, strong lightweight airframe and nimble low-speed manners.

What's in It for You

Strategic and tactical impact
While this isn't a blank-canvas situation, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to put your personal stamp as you influence company strategy, drive improvements and shape the accounting/finance department. You will play a key role in ensuring we are set up for success as we continue to grow.

Professional development
Because we are privately owned, you will have leeway to make changes and try new ideas. As the future unfolds there will likely be a possibility of outside investment, such as joint ventures, and you'll play a lead role in those efforts. Depending on your interests and performance, you might expand your role over time, such as assuming leadership of functional areas beyond accounting.

Not just a job . . . a way of life
We are passionate about what we do, and we'll expect you to embrace that passion. Just as we promise our customers "Adventure Multiplied®," we are committed to bringing every employee on the adventure of developing and manufacturing the best aircraft available. As Director of Finance / Controller, you will play a critical and expanding role in our adventure.

Great environment
There are two aviation manufacturers in Washington, and we're NOT the big one (Boeing). We're proud of our close-knit culture and the large number of long-tenured employees at CubCrafters. The culture is contagious: we simply love to design, build and fly great aircraft. The atmosphere is upbeat and energetic. Great small company culture, but entrepreneurial spirit and growth

Get into the sky
Nothing is quite so motivating as climbing into the cockpit of the planes you helped produce and soaring past the slopes of Mt. Rainier or coasting above the trees that line the Columbia River. We maintain a Sport Cub exclusively for the use of our employees, who can reserve and fly it for a subsidized aircraft rental rate.

Video: Introduced in June 2016, the XCub redefines the Light Sport Aircraft category by being lighter, faster and stronger than any aircraft in that category. It also provides a larger payload and greater range, giving XCub a much wider mission profile compared to any other aircraft in this class. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) calls the XCub "A modern, highly refined adventure machine that takes the Super Cub line as far as it can logically go," and Plane and Pilot magazine said, "We flew it a month ago and were blown away by it."

Keys to Success

We realize that there will be a learning curve as you get to know our business and processes, but we'll also expect you to leverage your experience and expertise to start making contributions in short order. We do a lot of brainstorming here at CubCrafters, and our goal is to bring on a professional with the technical chops to support those brainstorming sessions "on the fly." That is, in most situations you should understand the financial implications of a particular transaction without having to go and do a lot of research.

Once you are at cruising altitude, you should assess our processes, procedures and controls to identify potential improvements. The challenge will be to make the changes while also ensuring your team accomplishes established goals and meets deadlines on a consistent basis.

In addition, in order to be an outstanding Director of Finance / Controller, you will bring:
  • A proactive approach to your work and problem solving
  • A strong sense of urgency
  • A positive, professional attitude
  • Honesty, integrity, and transparency
  • A clear and cohesive communication style
Pictured: CubCrafters partnered with Garmin to create our top-of-the-line panel, the Executive GLASS touch, which incorporates Garmin's G3X™ Touch 10.6" touch-sensitive flight display system.

About Yakima

We love the Yakima Valley, but we also recognize that it isn't for everybody. First, here are some of the reasons we wouldn't live anywhere else:
  • 290 days of sunshine a year and wide open blue skies; we get some snow in the winter, and summer temperatures average in the high 80s.
  • More than 100 award-winning wineries.
  • Outdoor sports, from year round  hiking to skiing to snowmobiling to white water rafting, and from hunting to fly-fishing.
  • Farm fresh local produce like apples, peaches and cherries -- some farms let you pick your own.
  • Berries, berries, berries.
  • The annual Fresh Hop Ale Fest (we grow most of America's hops right here).
  • A cost of living, including housing, that is considerably lower than on the coast, and below the national average.
  • No traffic!
On the other hand, if you need a steady dose of urban energy, Yakima probably isn't the place for you. The city of Yakima has more than 90,000 residents and the metro area is almost 250,000 strong. Valley Mall, in nearby Union Gap, features a wide array of national retailers. We're not a small town, but we're not Seattle. For an occasional dose of urban culture, though, Seattle is just over two hours away.

If we determine that you are a strong candidate, we'll invite you to visit Yakima and get a feel for the lifestyle here. Meanwhile, for a little more information, visit Yakima Valley Tourism. Clicking on this link will open a new browser window, but be sure to come back to submit your resume!

Video: I Heart Yakima produced this video to showcase a few reasons they love the beautiful, bountiful Yakima Valley. According to the group, "Rural is innovative. Small is big. And we love beautiful, unique Yakima, Washington."

About Us

Adventure Included

We here at CubCrafters are natural explorers. We love what we do. From the beginning, what distinguished our founder's vision was his ability to recognize the potential performance that he believed had never been fully developed in the Super Cub. An innovative tinkerer as well as an accomplished airframe and power plant mechanic, Jim was constantly on the lookout for interesting modifications and refinements. Over the next two decades, this ambition evolved to the stage where CubCrafters was no longer in the modification business so much as it was building new airplanes - airplanes greatly improved from the original Super Cub.

CubCrafters offers three all new, ready-to-fly aircraft plus two versions of its state-of-the-art aircraft kit. In the LSA category the Carbon Cub SS is a thoroughly updated redesign of the classic airplane that inspired the light sport category with 180 horsepower available for takeoff and climb, making it the most powerful LSA aircraft in production. CubCrafters also offers the Carbon Cub EX-2, the lightest, most complete and best engineered Cub kit available, and the innovative new FX builder assist program. The newly introduced Xcub has reset the performance bar in Certified Utility class aircraft and won widespread industry acclaim from the moment it launched in 2016. The legacy Top Cub boasts a useful load of over 1000 pounds, making it among the ultimate evolution of the classic Piper Super Cub.

CubCrafters operates in a modern 72,000 square foot facility on the edge of McAllister Field Airport in Yakima, Washington. We hold an FAA Production Certificate to manufacture duplicate products of approved designs, such as the Top Cub. We are also the only manufacturer in America building Light Sport Aircraft in an FAA Certified facility.

Yakima is an idyllic spot for flying and testing our planes: big skies, punctuated on the Western horizon by the always snow-capped peaks of the Cascade mountain range. 290 days of sunshine each year. The nearby countryside dotted with wineries, orchards and rangeland. Inside our buildings, over 130 dedicated and highly skilled people come together to build some of the most innovative and exciting aircraft available. The process is a unique combination of time-tested handcrafting, complimented with the latest in computer-aided design and fabrication.

In many ways, this is every enthusiast's dream workshop. Spotless. Organized. Ideally configured to optimize the process of building an airplane to the highest levels of precision. Proven principles of lean manufacturing ensure that there is no outdated inventory and that all parts and procedures are under constant scrutiny for possible improvement.

Unlike many manufacturing facilities, the CubCrafters factory houses all departments involved with the design, support and sales of our airplanes. This close proximity results not only in operational efficiencies, but also in a tangible sense of teamwork and shared purpose that is at the very core of our business. It is an indispensable part of what makes a CubCrafters airplane so special.

Video: An overview of CubCrafter's product line and the features that make them the light-sport aircraft of choice for adventure-seeking pilots.

Share in the Adventure at Growing Leader in Light Aircraft Manufacturing

Make an Impact in Positive Environment with Culture of Innovation

Strong technical knowledge. Strategic thinking. Excellent leadership skills. If this describes you, consider aligning your career with CubCrafters. Here's why: Yakima, Washington offers a neighborly small-town culture, a low cost of living and stress-free commuting. It's also a paradise for outdoor sports enthusiasts. Relocation assistance may be available to highly qualified candidates.

Founded in 1980, CubCrafters builds the world's best utility and sport airplanes. Having begun as the world's leading Super Cub rebuilder and outfitter, CubCrafters now manufactures its own designs. We are currently the only aircraft manufacturer in the nation to produce aircraft in three different FAA certification categories, all under an FAA-approved quality assurance program. Though CubCrafters' roots are in the 60-year history of classic "tail dragger" aviation its products and services are clearly recognized in the industry as leading edge with many industry firsts. 

Video: At CubCrafters we understand that, in order to build great airplanes, we have to build a great airplane company.

The Requirements

To be a good fit for the Director of Finance / Controller opportunity, you will have:
  • A degree from a four-year university in accounting, business administration, or business management.
  • 5+ years of progressively increased financial management experience with at least controller-level responsibility and experience. Quick question for you - click here
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Good technical skills, including a strong understanding of GAAP.
  • Experience in using sophisticated ERP/MRP systems; familiarity with Epicor would be a plus.
  • Demonstrated skill in developing key performance indicators and presenting and explaining financial performance to internal and external users.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and familiarity with all current computer communication tools.
  • Strong organizational skills and good personal work discipline.
  • A results orientation, a strategic mindset, and effective planning skills.
Top candidates also will have:
  • CPA certification.
  • A "business partner" mentality and motivation to work closely with the President and senior leadership team on effective strategy development and decision making.
  • Experience working with private ownership and/or other outside investment.
  • General aviation experience.


Pictured: CubCrafters quality requires both expert handcrafting and state-of-the-art manufacturing technology.

The Role

Reporting directly to the President, you will supervise a team that includes a Controller and an additional five accounting resources. As CubCrafters has grown its need for more sophisticated financial strategy and more targeted and accurate metrics have grown. You will be the senior manager responsible for crafting effective financial strategy, providing appropriate and needed metrics, and bringing accounting best-practices to the company. You'll also play a role in developing overall company strategy, but especially in crafting and implementing financial procedures to improve and maintain the financial health of the company.

Your responsibilities will include:
  • At a top level, participating in crafting annual financial strategy then drive execution of same.
  • Oversight of, and responsibility for, all accounting transactional activities via oversight and management of Controller and accounting staff. You'll be responsible for optimizing accounting department organization, staffing, and efficiency. Quick question for you - click here
  • Maintaining awareness of cash account balances and provide cash forecasting.
  • Overseeing and ensuring the timely delivery of:
    • financial statements on a monthly basis, including financial and operating metrics for the company to include all profit centers, business units, and operating entities;
    • management and "key metrics" reports and analyses;
    • all tax documentation and regulatory filings as required.
  • Driving the process of documenting all accounting process and procedures as a basis for staff training and standardizing procedures.
  • Leading development of accurate COGS as a basis for analyzing profitability and strategic product line decisions.
  • Managing production of the annual budget and projections.
  • Overseeing the various company insurance relationships.
  • Assuming fiduciary responsibility for 401(k) program.
  • Supporting the CEO in managing and facilitating potential outside investments and funding projects.
  • Handling other duties/projects as assigned.
Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Pictured: The Carbon Cub has redefined expectations for backcountry aircraft. It has taken the fundamentally superior design of the Piper Super Cub and reinvented it using 21st Century materials and computer-aided design. We offer three variants: Carbon Cub SS (a production Light Sport Aircraft), Carbon Cub FX (an innovative Builder Assist E-AB aircraft), and Carbon Cub EX (aircraft kit). Carbon Cub has been designed for off-airport operation with a powerful engine, strong lightweight airframe and nimble low-speed manners.

What's in It for You

Strategic and tactical impact
While this isn't a blank-canvas situation, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to put your personal stamp as you influence company strategy, drive improvements and shape the accounting/finance department. You will play a key role in ensuring we are set up for success as we continue to grow.

Professional development
Because we are privately owned, you will have leeway to make changes and try new ideas. As the future unfolds there will likely be a possibility of outside investment, such as joint ventures, and you'll play a lead role in those efforts. Depending on your interests and performance, you might expand your role over time, such as assuming leadership of functional areas beyond accounting.

Not just a job . . . a way of life
We are passionate about what we do, and we'll expect you to embrace that passion. Just as we promise our customers "Adventure Multiplied®," we are committed to bringing every employee on the adventure of developing and manufacturing the best aircraft available. As Director of Finance / Controller, you will play a critical and expanding role in our adventure.

Great environment
There are two aviation manufacturers in Washington, and we're NOT the big one (Boeing). We're proud of our close-knit culture and the large number of long-tenured employees at CubCrafters. The culture is contagious: we simply love to design, build and fly great aircraft. The atmosphere is upbeat and energetic. Great small company culture, but entrepreneurial spirit and growth

Get into the sky
Nothing is quite so motivating as climbing into the cockpit of the planes you helped produce and soaring past the slopes of Mt. Rainier or coasting above the trees that line the Columbia River. We maintain a Sport Cub exclusively for the use of our employees, who can reserve and fly it for a subsidized aircraft rental rate.

Video: Introduced in June 2016, the XCub redefines the Light Sport Aircraft category by being lighter, faster and stronger than any aircraft in that category. It also provides a larger payload and greater range, giving XCub a much wider mission profile compared to any other aircraft in this class. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) calls the XCub "A modern, highly refined adventure machine that takes the Super Cub line as far as it can logically go," and Plane and Pilot magazine said, "We flew it a month ago and were blown away by it."

Keys to Success

We realize that there will be a learning curve as you get to know our business and processes, but we'll also expect you to leverage your experience and expertise to start making contributions in short order. We do a lot of brainstorming here at CubCrafters, and our goal is to bring on a professional with the technical chops to support those brainstorming sessions "on the fly." That is, in most situations you should understand the financial implications of a particular transaction without having to go and do a lot of research.

Once you are at cruising altitude, you should assess our processes, procedures and controls to identify potential improvements. The challenge will be to make the changes while also ensuring your team accomplishes established goals and meets deadlines on a consistent basis.

In addition, in order to be an outstanding Director of Finance / Controller, you will bring:
  • A proactive approach to your work and problem solving
  • A strong sense of urgency
  • A positive, professional attitude
  • Honesty, integrity, and transparency
  • A clear and cohesive communication style
Pictured: CubCrafters partnered with Garmin to create our top-of-the-line panel, the Executive GLASS touch, which incorporates Garmin's G3X™ Touch 10.6" touch-sensitive flight display system.

About Yakima

We love the Yakima Valley, but we also recognize that it isn't for everybody. First, here are some of the reasons we wouldn't live anywhere else:
  • 290 days of sunshine a year and wide open blue skies; we get some snow in the winter, and summer temperatures average in the high 80s.
  • More than 100 award-winning wineries.
  • Outdoor sports, from year round  hiking to skiing to snowmobiling to white water rafting, and from hunting to fly-fishing.
  • Farm fresh local produce like apples, peaches and cherries -- some farms let you pick your own.
  • Berries, berries, berries.
  • The annual Fresh Hop Ale Fest (we grow most of America's hops right here).
  • A cost of living, including housing, that is considerably lower than on the coast, and below the national average.
  • No traffic!
On the other hand, if you need a steady dose of urban energy, Yakima probably isn't the place for you. The city of Yakima has more than 90,000 residents and the metro area is almost 250,000 strong. Valley Mall, in nearby Union Gap, features a wide array of national retailers. We're not a small town, but we're not Seattle. For an occasional dose of urban culture, though, Seattle is just over two hours away.

If we determine that you are a strong candidate, we'll invite you to visit Yakima and get a feel for the lifestyle here. Meanwhile, for a little more information, visit Yakima Valley Tourism. Clicking on this link will open a new browser window, but be sure to come back to submit your resume!

Video: I Heart Yakima produced this video to showcase a few reasons they love the beautiful, bountiful Yakima Valley. According to the group, "Rural is innovative. Small is big. And we love beautiful, unique Yakima, Washington."

About Us

Adventure Included

We here at CubCrafters are natural explorers. We love what we do. From the beginning, what distinguished our founder's vision was his ability to recognize the potential performance that he believed had never been fully developed in the Super Cub. An innovative tinkerer as well as an accomplished airframe and power plant mechanic, Jim was constantly on the lookout for interesting modifications and refinements. Over the next two decades, this ambition evolved to the stage where CubCrafters was no longer in the modification business so much as it was building new airplanes - airplanes greatly improved from the original Super Cub.

CubCrafters offers three all new, ready-to-fly aircraft plus two versions of its state-of-the-art aircraft kit. In the LSA category the Carbon Cub SS is a thoroughly updated redesign of the classic airplane that inspired the light sport category with 180 horsepower available for takeoff and climb, making it the most powerful LSA aircraft in production. CubCrafters also offers the Carbon Cub EX-2, the lightest, most complete and best engineered Cub kit available, and the innovative new FX builder assist program. The newly introduced Xcub has reset the performance bar in Certified Utility class aircraft and won widespread industry acclaim from the moment it launched in 2016. The legacy Top Cub boasts a useful load of over 1000 pounds, making it among the ultimate evolution of the classic Piper Super Cub.

CubCrafters operates in a modern 72,000 square foot facility on the edge of McAllister Field Airport in Yakima, Washington. We hold an FAA Production Certificate to manufacture duplicate products of approved designs, such as the Top Cub. We are also the only manufacturer in America building Light Sport Aircraft in an FAA Certified facility.

Yakima is an idyllic spot for flying and testing our planes: big skies, punctuated on the Western horizon by the always snow-capped peaks of the Cascade mountain range. 290 days of sunshine each year. The nearby countryside dotted with wineries, orchards and rangeland. Inside our buildings, over 130 dedicated and highly skilled people come together to build some of the most innovative and exciting aircraft available. The process is a unique combination of time-tested handcrafting, complimented with the latest in computer-aided design and fabrication.

In many ways, this is every enthusiast's dream workshop. Spotless. Organized. Ideally configured to optimize the process of building an airplane to the highest levels of precision. Proven principles of lean manufacturing ensure that there is no outdated inventory and that all parts and procedures are under constant scrutiny for possible improvement.

Unlike many manufacturing facilities, the CubCrafters factory houses all departments involved with the design, support and sales of our airplanes. This close proximity results not only in operational efficiencies, but also in a tangible sense of teamwork and shared purpose that is at the very core of our business. It is an indispensable part of what makes a CubCrafters airplane so special.

Video: An overview of CubCrafter's product line and the features that make them the light-sport aircraft of choice for adventure-seeking pilots.
CubCrafters is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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