Financial Data Operations Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril’s Data & Operations team combines internal data analytics with operational processes and business systems to make insights actionable. The Financial Data Operations Engineer will build finance tools and templates, integrate finance workflows with data platforms, support user adoption and training, and identify automation opportunities. The role partners with Finance, Analytics, and company leadership to improve decision-making and organizational effectiveness.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in a finance, operations, or data analysis role; ideally building financial models with large-scale data integrations.
• Motivation to support Anduril’s defense mission.
• Deep understanding of data stack tools such as Databricks, Palantir Foundry, dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, or Dagster.
• Ability to thrive in cross-functional projects combining technical requirements and user-focused workflows.
• Empathy and eagerness to understand users’ perspectives.
• Business-impact orientation and self-starting approach to driving ambiguous projects.

Nice To Haves

• Prior FP&A, financial modeling, or forecasting experience in the defense sector.
• Experience with AI/LLM-powered tooling and automation in a production environment.
• Change management experience launching tools that required user adoption, training, and iteration based on feedback.
• Experience operating in SOX-compliant data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build Excel-based finance tools and templates, data integrations, and AI-powered workflows to reduce manual data gathering and entry and improve finance processes.
• Collaborate with the Analytics team to integrate Finance workflows with the data platform and provide end users with clean, reliable data.
• Support Finance users through office hours, bootcamps, and training on forecasting, self-service financial data access, and application development best practices.
• Identify Finance problems that can be addressed with data and work with the organization to implement solutions.
• Serve as a trusted resource to Anduril leadership to help them run their organizations more effectively.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed