Strategic Finance Analyst, Mission Systems

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril Industries is hiring a Strategic Finance Analyst for its Mission Systems division. The role owns models connecting how products are built, fielded, and sustained with how they are priced and represented in the long-range plan. Reporting to the Mission Systems Division Finance Lead, the analyst builds pricing and operations and sustainment (O&S) models across the division’s product portfolio and works with Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Mission Operations, Software, and Product teams to understand operational data and its context. The analyst turns ambiguous questions and complex analysis into decision-ready recommendations for division leadership.

The work covers pricing for hardware, software subscriptions, and sustainment; lifecycle sustainment costs; logistics and reverse logistics; mission operations and software sustainment; unit cost, yield, and learning curves; and alignment between long-range planning assumptions and current product offerings. The analyst also performs scenario analysis and develops reusable models, tools, and dashboards across business lines and product families.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, FP&A, pricing, consulting, or another highly analytical role.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to build dynamic models from a blank sheet and perform scenario, sensitivity, and NPV/IRR analysis.
• Ability to work alongside engineers and operators, understand the context behind data, and turn ambiguous questions into structured analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make complex analysis accessible to senior leaders.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to apply for and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Investment banking or private equity experience, with exposure to valuation, transaction, or operating models.
• Experience building lifecycle cost, O&S, warranty, or aftermarket service models.
• Experience pricing combined hardware and software or subscription offerings.
• Defense, aerospace, or complex hardware industry experience, including familiarity with fixed-price and cost-type contract structures.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, or BI tools, and familiarity with Oracle ERP and Oracle EPM.

Responsibilities

• Build and own pricing models for Mission Systems hardware, software subscriptions, and sustainment offerings, connecting unit cost, margin targets, and contract structure to price.
• Build and maintain O&S models that translate field data—including MTBF, field return and repair rates, spares consumption, and repair turnaround—into lifecycle sustainment cost and price.
• Model logistics and reverse logistics flows, including spares positioning, returns, depot repair, and refurbishment, and quantify cost and inventory impacts.
• Model mission operations and software sustainment costs, including field support, software updates, and engineering support, and assess how costs scale with fleet growth.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to understand unit cost, yield, and learning curves and how design and quality improvements affect lifecycle cost.
• Bridge the long-range plan and current product offerings, ensuring assumptions for units, price, margin, and O&S reconcile with what is sold and supported.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analyses on volume, price, reliability, and sustainment approaches to support pursuit, product, and investment decisions, including NPV/IRR business cases.
• Distill complex analysis into clear recommendations and executive-ready presentations for division leadership.
• Build reusable models, tools, and dashboards that scale across business lines and product families.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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