Senior Finance Associate, Engineering

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity grants

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, California is seeking a Financial Analyst to own financial analyses for R&D initiatives and existing products. The role involves project management, data analysis, and collaboration across functions such as Finance, Engineering, and Supply Chain.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of experience in finance, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in Excel. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $129,000 to $171,000, alongside comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing finance or a high growth hardware finance role.
• Strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts.
• Ability to quantify complex, often ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end-to-end, executing analyses and developing scalable solutions.
• Build P&L models and financial frameworks for operational decisions.
• Create frameworks for value engineering and cost reduction strategies.

Skills

Financial analyses

Analytical aptitude

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Tools

Salesforce

Palantir Foundry

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

• You will own financial analyses that underpin major R&D initiatives around Anduril as well as existing products and businesses
• You will partner with leadership and teams from across the business to translate engineering problems into quantitative measures and partial solutions (with a financial lens)
• Your work will vary from quick-turn analytical problem solving to process and data improvements and building out financial models

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own projects end‑to‑end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them.
  • Execute scrappy analyses on short timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term
  • Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you
  • Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top‑to‑bottom. You will interact with Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and more
• Own detailed financial models end‑to‑end, from on‑the‑ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders.
  • Build P&L models for different products, business lines, divisions, and acquisitions
  • Build novel financial frameworks for thinking through operational decisions, including but not limited to facilities, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.
• Create novel frameworks for establishing a strong “value engineering” muscle.
  • Establish transparency into material cost for existing and future Anduril products
  • Build financial models that help set material cost targets for different products
  • Work with the Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop and implement cost reduction roadmaps
  • Help executives think through tradeoffs in product features vs. costs vs. profitability
• Red‑Team engineering plans from a financial / business perspective

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• You have 5+ years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or in a finance role at a high growth hardware company
• You have a strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
• You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers
• You are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel
• You have an ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems
• You are willing to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry)
• You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at times require comms to large groups and senior leadership
• You enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

US Salary Range: $129,000 — $171,000 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.