Platform Finance Director: ROI & Cost Strategy

Anduril

Costa Mesa (CA)

On-site

USD 191,000 - 253,000

Full time

14 days+

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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 ROI analyses and serve as the internal finance partner to platform leadership and the divisions they support.

Responsibilities include budgeting, cost allocation design, unit-economics, and payback analyses for capacity investments. You will build dashboards and collaborate with engineering and operations to inform senior leadership

Qualifications

10+ years of progressive finance experience in 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 the ability to independently build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses.
Demonstrated ability to partner with both technical/engineering leadership and finance peers across other business units.
Advanced Excel and financial systems/ERP proficiency.
Must be a U.S. Person due to required 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 the cost allocation and chargeback methodology used to bill platform costs back to Divisions and BLs, ensuring the methodology is transparent, defensible, and auditable.
Build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses that quantify whether centralized capacity delivers a real cost or speed advantage over a Division/BL building or sourcing the capability independently.
Develop the capacity planning and prioritization framework platform leadership uses to sequence competing demand across Divisions and BLs, and translate resulting trade-offs into financial terms for company leadership.
Partner directly with Division finance leads and business leaders as internal customers, proactively communicating cost trends and variances before they surface as surprises in business reviews.
Build performance dashboards and KPIs (unit cost (APUC), utilization, throughput, cost trend vs. alternatives) that make platform performance transparent to non-platform stakeholders.
Develop ROI and payback analyses to support capacity investment decisions, including new equipment, facilities, and headcount.
Partner with platform engineering and operations leadership on strategic decisions, including build-vs-buy, insourcing/outsourcing, and capacity expansion.