Finance Associate, Engineering

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Slope in Costa Mesa, California, is seeking a finance professional to manage development and production cost estimations of innovative products. The role involves project management across various teams, requiring strong analytical skills and the ability to handle complex financial data.

Ideal candidates will have over 5 years in a relevant role, excel in analytics, and be comfortable presenting to leadership. Comprehensive benefits and a competitive salary package between $99,000 and $130,000 are offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a relevant finance or engineering role.
• Strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts.
• Ability to execute analyses quickly in Excel.
• Comfort with corporate systems and analytic tools.
• Effective communication skills for broad audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own development and production cost estimations for products.
• Project management across stakeholders and functions.
• Build parametric cost models and lifecycle cost forecasts.
• Create frameworks for value engineering and cost transparency.
• Communicate engineering plans from a financial perspective.

Skills

Manufacturing finance

Engineering finance

Analytical aptitude

Excel proficiency

Communication

Tools

Salesforce

Coupa

Anaplan

Palantir Foundry

Job description

ABOUT THE JOB

• You will own development and production cost estimations for new products ranging in maturity from concept to in development
• 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

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them
  • 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. 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
  • Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom. You will interact with Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and more
• Own detailed should cost models end-to-end, from on-the-ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders
  • Build parametric cost models for a variety of products breaking down products into first principles including capability and physics
  • Tying entire product life cycle costs together to forecast product business case viability, opportunities, and risks
• 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• You have minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or value engineering role at a high growth hardware company
• You have a strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
• You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers
• You are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel
• You have an ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems
• You are willing to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry)
• You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at times require comms to large groups and senior leadership
• 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
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Basic understanding of engineering design within one or more of the following: aerospace, software, maritime, or electronics
• Understanding of configuration management principles and how to structure Bill of Materials
• Familiarity with defense standards such as MIL-STD-881 and DOD MRA Frameworks

US Salary Range: $99,000 – $130,000 USD

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.