Senior Finance Associate, Engineering

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

4d

About The Position

You will own financial analyses that underpin major R&D initiatives around Anduril as well as existing products and businesses. You will partner with leadership and teams from across the business to translate engineering problems into quantitative measures and partial solutions (with a financial lens). Your work will vary from quick-turn analytical problem solving to process and data improvements and building out financial models.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or in a finance role at a high growth hardware company.
• Strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts.
• Strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers.
• Ability to quickly execute analyses in Excel.
• Ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems.
• Willingness to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry).
• Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Nice To Haves

• If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you.
• You enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation.
• Execute scrappy analyses on short timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term.
• Project manage across many stakeholders.
• Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom.
• Own detailed financial models end-to-end, from on-the-ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders.
• Build P&L models for different products, business lines, divisions, and acquisitions.
• Build novel financial frameworks for thinking through operational decisions, including but not limited to facilities, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.
• Create novel frameworks for establishing a strong “value engineering” muscle.
• Establish transparency into material cost for existing and future Anduril products.
• Build financial models that help set material cost targets for different products.
• Work with the Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop and implement cost reduction roadmaps.
• Help executives think through tradeoffs in product features vs. costs vs. profitability.
• “Red-Team” engineering plans from a financial / business perspective.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

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