Finance Manager, Production

Visa Hunt; Ashville (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Manufacturing Finance Manager to join the Production Finance team. You will partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, marketing, product, and growth teams to optimize cost management, pricing, and financial strategies.

The role emphasizes strategic influence and strong financial modeling in a hardware environment. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years in manufacturing finance, a solid grasp of financial concepts, and the ability to build

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or 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.
• Excel proficiency and ability to translate findings to business partners; willingness to learn corporate systems and analytic tools.

Responsibilities

• End to end financial management of production execution: headcount, cash/working capital, demand planning, standard costing, production attainment, and margins.
• Establish alignment & transparency into Standard Costing and BOM costs for a portfolio of products.
• Consolidate Product Revenue and costing models, business case analyses, and decision-making frameworks with cross-functional teams.
• Lead planning and execution of financials and resource analysis across engineering, supply chain, program management, and operations.
• Develop long term cost management and reduction programs, including product profitability roadmaps for new technologies.

Skills

Financial modeling

Cost management

Excel

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance Economics

MBA or technical background

Tools

Salesforce

Coupa

Anaplan

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The production finance team is responsible for overseeing the financial execution of our Global Manufacturing Organization. We are the intersection between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance as it relates to production; we leverage data and business relationships to drive towards the best financial outcome for Anduril. You get to partner with Anduril’s functional and business leaders by providing key insights on demand signals, production attainment, resource allocation, and Product profitability.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking a Manufacturing Finance Manager with 5-7 years of experience to join our Production Finance team. You’ll be embedded as a thought partner to senior leadership, with responsibilities like, partnering with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, marketing, product, and growth teams to optimize cost management, pricing, and financial strategies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial modeling, experience in operations or hardware environments, and capable of building strong business relations with internal customers. This individual will directly own financials for a given product portfolio, guiding strategic decision‑making, and optimizing financial performance. The successful candidate will play an active role in shaping strategy rather than functioning solely as a service provider – the deeper you go the better your results.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• End to end financial management of production execution: including, but not limited to, headcount, cash/working capital, demand planning, standard costing, production attainment, and managing product margins.
• Establish alignment & transparency into Standard Costing and BOM costs for portfolio of Anduril products.
• Work cross functionally with Division Finance and Manufacturing Functional teams to own consolidation of Product Revenue and costing models, business case analyses, and decision making frameworks.
• Lead planning and execution of financials and resource analysis across functions such as engineering, supply chain, program management, and operations.
• Develop long term cost management and reduction programs, including product profitability roadmaps for new technologies.
• Build novel financial frameworks for thinking through operational decisions, including but not limited to manufacturing, supply chain, etc.
• Support cross-functional teams with tradeoff studies to achieve sustainable unit economics.
• Develop complex financial models to assess various financial scenarios and support strategic initiatives.
• Adopt Standardized data model, but tailor to the needs of your respective Product portfolio
• Identify and implement process improvements to streamline FP&A activities and enhance reporting accuracy.
• Lead the development of executive‑level reporting and present financial insights to senior management.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field; MBA or technical background (Engineering/Supply Chain/Operations) is a plus.
• You have 7-10 years of experience in manufacturing finance, business unit finance, management consulting, investment banking, or similar.
• You have a strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex financial information in an understandable manner.
• You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers.
  • You are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel & translate findings to business partners
  • 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.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

US Salary Range

$150,000 — $171,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top‑tier benefits for full‑time employees, including:

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. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.