Senior Strategic Finance Manager, Maneuver Dominance

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril is seeking a Senior Strategic Finance Manager to own strategic finance for its Maneuver Dominance division, which delivers platforms, systems, and integrated effects in Group 3/4/5 aviation domains. The division develops and maintains autonomous vehicles, core products, and payloads for defense, intelligence community, and commercial customers in U.S. and international markets.

Reporting to the MD Head of Finance, this role leads analysis for the division’s most important decisions. The manager owns strategic finance initiatives end to end, including sizing new investments, pressure-testing business cases, running complex scenarios, and tracking returns on strategic bets and high-IRAD investments. It combines hands-on financial modeling with leadership responsibilities, beginning with one direct report and expanding the function as the division scales. The role partners with business line leaders to translate strategy into financial models, frameworks, and analyses that inform investment and growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 6 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, or strategic finance, with a heavy modeling focus.
• Elite financial modeling skills, including fluency in Excel and the ability to build complex, dynamic models from a blank sheet.
• Deep experience with scenario, sensitivity, and valuation analyses, including DCF, NPV/IRR, and returns analysis.
• Proven ability to independently own and drive high-stakes strategic initiatives end to end.
• Experience leading or mentoring analysts and readiness to manage and grow a team.
• Strong business judgment and ability to turn ambiguous strategic questions into structured analysis and clear recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make complex analysis accessible to executives.
• Exceptional PowerPoint skills for creating executive-ready presentations under tight timelines.
• Intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and enthusiasm for quantitative problems in a fast-moving environment.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, hardware, or another capital-intensive industry.
• Exposure to R&D / IRAD investment analysis or technology and product investment decisions.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, or BI tools for large-scale data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own the division’s strategic finance agenda, set priorities, and drive strategic finance initiatives end to end.
• Lead, mentor, and grow the strategic finance team, initially managing one direct report.
• Serve as the division’s strategic finance partner to senior leaders and business line owners.
• Build and own sophisticated financial models to evaluate strategic initiatives, new programs, and capital investments.
• Run multi-variable scenario and sensitivity analyses to quantify risk, upside, and trade-offs.
• Develop business cases and investment theses for major initiatives.
• Track and report the performance of strategic bets and high-IRAD investments against their original theses.
• Partner with leadership on capital allocation, prioritizing investments and surfacing portfolio trade-offs.
• Monitor program economics and unit costs, and flag returns that diverge from plan.
• Support long-range planning and strategic forecasting by connecting top-down strategy to bottoms-up financials.
• Partner with business line leaders on priority strategic and financial questions.
• Build frameworks and dashboards that make investment performance and strategic progress visible to leadership.
• Translate complex models and analyses into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
• Present findings to senior leadership and drive alignment on strategic and investment decisions.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior