Strategic Finance

Anduril Industries • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

You will own high-priority financial analyses that underpin major initiatives around Anduril. You will partner with leadership and teams from across the business to unpack ambiguous problems, develop a thorough understanding, and provide solutions (with a financial lens). Your work will vary from quick-turn analytical problem solving to process improvements and building out financial models. The Strategic Finance team at Anduril has three primary responsibilities: Special projects. We are frequently pulled into high priority problems that must be solved, but do not fall neatly into the purview of an existing person’s job description. Our team is one of the first to get tapped when a messy problem needs solving. Pricing Strategy. We are a key pillar in how we price products across the company. Anduril is at the forefront of new technologies that require novel pricing and contracting structures – and our team owns a large part of this. Maturing Financial Frameworks. Our team is at the forefront of how Anduril thinks about investments (incl. new products, new facilities, etc.). Its our job to bring financial rigor to these decisions and to mature our decision-making process.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, or similar.
• A strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts.
• Strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and can translate them into strategic, actionable insights.
• Able to quickly execute analyses in Excel.
• Self-driven and relentlessly proactive.
• Do not wait on others to solve problems. Proactively step into the gap to offer solutions yourself.
• Ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems.
• Willing to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry).
• Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work.
• 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 or sprinting on urgent asks.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.

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.
• Work on novel pricing frameworks for new technologies that the USG has never acquired before.
• Build out models to justify $ pricing and show how it impacts Anduril and the customer.
• Brainstorm / ideate on different ways of monetizing Anduril products and technology.
• Deeply embed with engineering, sales, and proposals teams on major new efforts.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed