Finance Manager: Mission Readiness & Strategy

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries invites a Finance Manager to join the Manufacturing Finance team. The role centers on owning the financials for product portfolios, driving strategic decisions, and optimizing performance in a hardware/ops environment.

Expect close collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to align financial strategy with production goals. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in manufacturing finance or related fields, strong Excel skills, and ability to communicate complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 7-10 years of experience in manufacturing finance, business unit finance, management consulting, investment banking, or similar.
• Strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex financial information in an understandable manner.
• Strong analytical aptitude. You think about problems in terms of numbers.
• You can execute analyses in Excel & translate findings to business partners.
• Willing to learn corporate systems (Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytics/dashboarding tools (Palantir Foundry).
• Comfortable communicating broadly to large groups and senior leadership.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• End to end financial management of strategic planning: headcount, cash/working capital, capital investment, and financial analysis for operations footprint.
• Establish transparency into headcount productivity for existing and future Anduril products.
• Drive consolidation of business case analyses and decision-making frameworks with cross-functional teams.
• Build financial frameworks for manufacturing and product execution decisions.
• Perform variance analysis, trend analysis, scenario modeling, and root-cause investigations.
• Support EVM and develop Estimates at Completion (EAC) and Estimates to Complete (ETC) for contracts.
• Develop cross-functional tradeoff analyses to improve unit economics.
• Develop complex financial models for strategic initiatives.
• Adopt standardized data models tailored to product portfolios.
• Identify and implement FP&A process improvements and improve reporting accuracy.
• Lead executive-level reporting and present financial insights to senior management.

Skills

Financial modeling

Operations experience

Excel

Communication

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Salesforce

Coupa

Anaplan

Palantir Foundry

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or economics

MBA or technical background (Engineering/Supply Chain/Operations)

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Anduril Industries invites a Finance Manager to join the Manufacturing Finance team. The role centers on owning the financials for product portfolios, driving strategic decisions, and optimizing performance in a hardware/ops environment.

Expect close collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to align financial strategy with production goals. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in manufacturing finance or related fields, strong Excel skills, and ability to communicate complex