Financial Data Operations Engineer

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building advanced systems and AI-enabled platforms. The Data & Operations team focuses on turning data into actionable insights across staffing, supply chain, manufacturing, and field sustainment.

The role centers on creating Finance tools, integrating workflows with data platforms, and driving user adoption to enable accurate forecasting and self-serve access for leadership and teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a finance, operations, or data analytics role with large-scale data integrations.
• Experience building financial models and forecasting workflows.
• Familiarity with modern data stack tools and data governance in enterprise environments.
• Ability to drive cross-functional projects with technical and user-focused requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build sophisticated Finance tools and templates—Excel-based solutions, data integrations, and AI-powered workflows that reduce manual data gathering and errors.
• Integrate Finance workflows with data platforms by connecting finance processes to the data platform for clean, reliable data access.
• Drive user adoption through office hours, bootcamps, and training on forecasting and self-serve data access.

Skills

Finance data analysis

Data integration

Cross-functional collaboration

Business analytics

Tools

Databricks

Palantir Foundry

dbt

Redshift

Looker/Tableau

Dagster

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

Anduril's Data & Operations team is focused on combining our internal data analytics with operational processes and business systems to make insights actionable. You will collaborate with stakeholders and drive partnerships across the company to improve decision making and optimize outcomes. Your work will directly increase the velocity of the organization by becoming an expert on our most critical workflows such as staffing, supply chain, manufacturing, and field sustainment.

What You’ll Do

• Build sophisticated Finance tools and templates - Create Excel-based solutions, data integrations, and AI-powered workflows that eliminate manual data gathering and entry while driving more efficient and accurate finance processes
• Integrate Finance workflows with data platforms - Collaborate with our Analytics team to connect finance processes directly into our data platform, ensuring end-users have easy access to clean, reliable data
• Drive user adoption and enablement - Support Finance users through office hours, bootcamps, and training on best practices to enable efficient forecasting, self-serve financial data access, and application development
• Proactively identify automation opportunities - Seek out Finance problems that can be solved with data and work with the organization to make it a reality
• Become a trusted resource for Anduril leadership in helping them run their organizations more effectively

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a finance, operations, or data analysis role; ideally building financial models with large-scale data integrations
• You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in defense
• Deep understanding of data stack tools: Databricks or Palantir Foundry or dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, Dagster
• You thrive in cross-functional projects that have a heavy combination of technical requirements and user-focused workflows
• You are empathetic: you are eager to see the world from your users' perspective
• You're energized by business impact & a self-starter: you love to drive the direction of ambiguous projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior FP&A, financial modeling, or forecasting experience in the Defense sector: you have an insider’s understanding of Finance workflows and painpoints
• Experience with AI/LLM-powered tooling and automation in a production environment
• Change management experience: you’ve launched tools that required user adoption, training, and iteration based on feedback
• Experience operating in SOX compliant data platforms

US Salary Range

$147,000-$196,000 USD

Benefits

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: 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.