Head of Corporate Finance

About This Role

Heading the corporate finance function means building and leading the financial planning engine for a fast-scaling defense technology company. You will own Corporate FP&A and the operating rhythms that connect the financial model to strategic priorities. The role sits at the intersection of the corporate finance team, division finance teams, and the C-suite, ensuring leadership has the right financial data and analysis for good decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own Anduril

• Partner closely with Anduril’s CFO and senior finance leadership on major strategic and tactical decisions

• Hire, lead, and develop a team of FP&A and business-partner finance professionals across corporate and the business units

• Turn the plan into headcount, capital, and cash targets that leaders can manage against, and hold the organization accountable to them

• Collaborate with Production Finance on capacity decisions, including facility build-outs, tooling, automation, long-lead inventory and capital requirements

• Build Board and investor materials, including quarterly reporting packages, KPI dashboards, and the narrative behind variance to plan

• Run a monthly C-suite business review that management uses to make decisions and drive meaningful changes in the business

• Partner with Accounting on the close, Treasury on liquidity, and Division Finance on business operating rhythms

• Raise the standard of financial rigor across the company, including preparing the organization for the reporting and forecasting discipline of a public company

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership at a company scaling through significant revenue and headcount growth
• Ownership of a full planning cycle, including long-range planning, annual operating planning, and rolling forecasts for a business of meaningful complexity
• Strong command of hardware/product economics, including unit cost, gross margin, inventory and working capital, and the cash implications of building physical products
• Experience preparing materials for and presenting to senior management, including the C-suite, Board of Directors, and institutional investors
• Track record of hiring and developing finance teams and replacing manual processes with durable, scalable systems
• Proven ability to operate as a strategic business partner across engineering, manufacturing, and G&A organizations, earning trust and influencing decisions before they are made
• Fluency in the underlying financial detail, with the ability to build models when needed and defend key assumptions