About This Role
Leading the financial planning engine for a rapidly scaling defense company is the core of this role, which involves owning Corporate FP&A and the operating rhythms that connect the financial model to strategic priorities. This position sits at the intersection of corporate finance, division finance, and the C-suite, translating company details into a clear narrative and providing leadership with financial data and analysis for decision-making. It is an operating and decision-making role that influences capital deployment, program pursuit, R&D initiatives, and production capacity.
Responsibilities
- Own Anduril's financial model, including the annual operating plan and the forecast rhythm across every business unit and functional organization
- 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
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Nice to have:
- Manufacturing or industrial finance experience, including capital project evaluation and factory ramp planning
- Exposure to IPO readiness, public-company reporting, or debt and equity financing processes
- Investment banking, private equity, or corporate development experience combined with operating experience
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost
About the Company
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. It brings the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, 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 real-time, 3D command and control center. Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
