Growth Finance Associate

Hadrian; Washington; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Relocation stipend

Flexible vacation policy

Health insurance? (platinum coverage)

Relocation stipend if you’re moving to

Job summary

Hadrian seeks an Associate in Growth Finance to model economics for major capital decisions and partnerships. You will build end-to-end financials, assess ROI, and structure deals with engineering and program leaders to align with strategic goals.

You will support M&A, carve-outs, and JV structures, while maintaining forecasts and communicating insights to senior leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity or growth equity, private credit, management consulting, corporate development, and/or strategy & operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to compress complex analysis for senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to carry ambiguous cross-functional work to a decision.
• Experience in capital-intensive industries (aerospace/defense, advanced manufacturing, automotive, semiconductors, energy, or data centers).
• Exposure to program management or large-scale project delivery; understanding government contracting is a plus.
• NetSuite or comparable ERP experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and own financial models for Hadrian’s largest capital decisions, including scenario modeling, cash flow forecasting, and spend projections.
• Evaluate investments end-to-end with ROI, payback, cash impact, and trade-offs across cost, schedule, and scope.
• Support corporate development and capital markets work from market research to diligence and structuring.
• Act as financial counterpart to engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership; provide visibility, structure, and accountability.
• Maintain forecasts and budgets aligned to milestones and program timelines; identify risks and opportunities early.

Skills

Financial modeling

ROI analysis

Cash flow forecasting

Scenario analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

M&A due diligence

Program management

ERP – NetSuite

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

• Growth Finance owns the economics of how Hadrian wins work
• We sit at the front end of every program — pricing the pursuit, shaping the deal, and structuring the partnerships and joint ventures that get new capacity off the ground with our commercial and government customers
• The Associate is the analytical center of that work
• You’ll build the model behind a pursuit from a blank sheet: unit economics, capacity and capex requirements, rate and margin structure, and the returns case that determines whether we bid, at what price, and on what terms
• You’ll pressure-test your own assumptions before anyone else gets the chance, and you’ll be expected to have a view — not just a spreadsheet — on whether a program is worth pursuing
• Beyond the model, you’ll help structure the vehicles
• That means partnership and JV economics, term sheets, waterfall and downside mechanics, and the diligence behind counterparties we’re considering taking risk with
• You’ll write the memo that goes to leadership, and you’ll defend it in the room
• This is a small team with a short path to owning deals outright
• The work available to you scales with what you demonstrate rather than with tenure
• Build and own financial models for Hadrian’s largest capital decisions — factory builds, new capability investments across welding, casting, forging, and additive, and program-level spend. This includes scenario modeling, cash flow forecasting, and spend projections
• Own the financial evaluation of individual investments end to end, applying transaction-level rigor: ROI, payback period, cash impact, and the explicit trade-offs across cost, schedule, and scope
• Support corporate development and capital markets work spanning M&A, carve-outs, equity investments, and joint ventures — from market research and target screening through diligence, structuring, and modeling
• Act as the financial counterpart to engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership. Many initiatives reach you as an engineering idea and a number on a whiteboard; you bring visibility, structure, and accountability
• Maintain forecasts and consolidated budgets that tie to our accounting frameworks, and keep financial plans aligned to operational milestones and program timelines
• Provide real-time insight into program performance — surfacing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs early enough for someone to act on them
• Analyze the operational drivers that determine whether a factory is economic: labor productivity, machine utilization, throughput, and unit cost performance
• Translate analysis into executive- and board-facing materials. Your work will be read by people who decide in minutes, so the “so what” has to survive compression
• Improve the plumbing. Find and fix gaps in reporting, forecasting process, automation, and data infrastructure rather than building workarounds
• Work across functions constantly — Production Operations, Engineering, Program Management, Special Projects, Automation, Accounting, Legal, and Investor Relations

Benefits

• 100% coverage of platinum medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of LA
• Flexible vacation policy

U.S. Person status is requiredHigh ownership and genuine curiosity about how physical things get made. Comfort being wrong in public, and iterating quickly when you areAbility to build a complex financial model from a blank page — not only to maintain one you inherited. Cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis are core, not adjacentAbility to manage multiple concurrent work streams without dropping any of them2-5 years experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity or growth equity, private credit, management consulting, corporate development, and/or strategy & operationsStrong written and verbal communication, specifically the ability to compress a complex analysis into something a senior leader can act on immediatelyDemonstrated ability to carry ambiguous, cross-functional work all the way to a decision without being managed to it. We would rather tell you to slow down than to speed upExperience in capital-intensive industries — aerospace and defense, advanced manufacturing, automotive, semiconductors, energy, or data centersM&A due diligence, transaction structuring, carve-outs, transaction advisory, or restructuringProject finance, capital project analysis, or large-scale infrastructure and high-dollar investment workExposure to program management or large-scale project deliveryExperience in a high-growth or PE/VC-backed environmentWorking knowledge of government contracting processes and proceduresNetSuite or comparable ERP experience