Platform Finance Director: ROI & Cost Strategy

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Director of Finance to lead financial planning, reporting, and cost strategy for RMS, HW Eng, and SWP. You will own the P&L and investment planning for these platform organizations and serve as the finance partner to platform leadership and divisions.

You will design cost models, perform make-vs-buy analyses, and develop ROI analyses to support capacity investments, build dashboards, and drive strategic decisions with engineering and operations leaders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including exposure to manufacturing, hardware engineering, or government contracting environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience building or operating cost allocation, shared-services, or chargeback models within a multi-business-unit organization.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses.
• Ability to partner with engineering leadership and finance peers across units.
• Advanced Excel and financial systems proficiency.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning, forecasting, and monthly/quarterly reporting, including budget development and variance analysis against plan.
• Design and maintain cost allocation and chargeback methodology to bill platform costs back to Divisions and BLs.
• Build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses for centralized capacity vs. Divisions.
• Develop capacity planning and prioritization framework and translate trade-offs into financial terms.
• Partner with Division finance leads and business leaders as internal customers.
• Build dashboards and KPIs (unit cost, utilization, throughput, cost trend).
• Develop ROI and payback analyses for capacity investments.
• Collaborate with platform engineering and operations on build-vs-buy and capacity expansion.

Skills

Finance leadership

Financial modeling

Partnership with leadership

Excel

ERP proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Director of Finance to lead financial planning, reporting, and cost strategy for RMS, HW Eng, and SWP. You will own the P&L and investment planning for these platform organizations and serve as the finance partner to platform leadership and divisions.

You will design cost models, perform make-vs-buy analyses, and develop ROI analyses to support capacity investments, build dashboards, and drive strategic decisions with engineering and operations leaders.