About This Role
This Finance Manager role focuses on SG&A Finance, serving as a strategic finance partner to corporate functions and owning the enterprise-level view of labor and workforce planning. The role drives SG&A financial performance through business partnership, management reporting, and financial inputs for annual budgeting and long-range planning. It involves managing a team of analysts and setting standards for how SG&A spend, particularly investment in people, is planned, measured, and optimized across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a finance business partner to SG&A departments, providing financial guidance, spend visibility, and decision support to functional leaders
- Own enterprise headcount planning and forecasting, building frameworks and processes that scale with a hypergrowth defense technology company
- Develop and maintain labor cost models, scenario analysis, and workforce ramp plans to support scaling across all functions
- Drive SG&A budget ownership and variance analysis, partnering with department leads to manage spend and identify efficiency opportunities
- Build workforce cost analytics and benchmarking against defense, aerospace, and high-growth tech peers, including productivity metrics such as revenue per employee, ACV per employee, and department ratio analysis
- Align workforce investments with business strategy, growth objectives, and government contract requirements
- Systematize workforce data to establish a single source of truth, partnering with HR, IT, and Finance to ensure data integrity and drive automation
- Own annual headcount and compensation planning cycles, including merit increase, promotion budgeting, and contingent workforce spend management
- Create executive-level financial models and reporting across SG&A and workforce; lead monthly presentations to business partners and senior leadership
- Lead and develop a team of analysts, setting expectations and creating room for growth
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related field, with at least 2 years managing or leading a team
- Experience as a finance business partner to corporate or SG&A functions
- Strong understanding of SG&A cost structures, workforce planning, and how corporate costs connect to divisional and program performance
- Experience designing financial reporting, planning processes, or allocation models at an enterprise level
- Ability to synthesize complex financial data into clear narratives for executive audiences
- Experience with financial planning systems, ERP platforms, and enterprise data management
- Proven ability to operate with significant autonomy in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Nice to have:
- MBA or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- Experience with government contract cost accounting (FAR/DCAA) and labor allocation principles
- Background in defense, aerospace, or government contracting
- Familiarity with workforce benchmarking, cost allocation methodologies, and organizational design analytics
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees, ensuring support in health, recovery, and whatever comes next
About the Company
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.
