Lead Financial Analyst, Frontier Systems

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to join its Frontier Systems finance team. The role targets candidates with rigorous analytical backgrounds who will drive program and business decisions through financial modeling and analysis.

You will partner with program leadership on pricing, forecasting, and margin optimization, and you will build scalable cost-tracking processes across products and contracts. This position requires a U.S. citizen with security-clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, or corporate finance experience.
• Robust financial modeling and Excel skills with strong quantitative ability.
• Curious to understand the why behind numbers beyond variance explanations.
• Bias-to-action; comfortable fixing gaps in process.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a fast, iterative pace.
• Strong written and verbal communication; translate finance detail into leadership narrative.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain/maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of program financial analysis, track performance and drivers.
• Partner with program leadership on pricing strategy and forecasting.
• Turn monthly forecasts and margin analysis into clear leadership commentary.
• Build business cases behind investments with rigorous, defensible models.
• Identify opportunities to improve forecasting, reporting, and cost capture as the business scales.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Excel skills

Analytical mindset

Bias to action

Strong communicator

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

Oracle ERP

Foundry ERP

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 JOB

We're seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to join our Frontier Systems finance team. This role is built for someone with a rigorous analytical background, e.g., investment banking, consulting, and/or corporate FP&A, who's ready to take on an operating role. The modeling and analysis you already do well will drive real program and business decisions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Influence P&L Outcomes: Take end-to-end ownership of program financial analysis. You'll need to both track performance and understand the operational drivers behind it well enough to influence them.
• Be a Strategic Partner: Partner with program leadership and proposals teams on pricing strategy and forecasting, bringing insight and context to decisions on margin, cost, and risk.
• Tell the Story: Turn monthly forecasts and margin analysis into clear, insightful commentary for program and business-line leadership. You'll highlight the trends and risks that matter.
• Make the Case: Build the business cases behind investment, developing rigorous, well-structured models with defensible assumptions that hold up to scrutiny from finance and business-line leadership.
• Build for Scale: Identify opportunities to improve how we forecast, report, and capture cost across products and contracts, and build the processes and tools that keep forecasting and cost capture accurate as the business line scales.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, or corporate finance
• Robust financial modeling and Excel skills, with strong quantitative and analytical horsepower
• Intellectually curious — you dig into the \"why\" behind the numbers and aren't satisfied stopping at variance explanations
• Bias-to-action – you are comfortable identifying and fixing gaps in process
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a fast, iterative pace
• Sharp written and verbal communicator, able to translate financial detail into a narrative leadership can act on
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience in a program/product finance or corporate FP&A role
• ERP experience (Oracle, Foundry)
• DoD and/or tech industry experience

US Salary Range

$147,000—$196,000 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.

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