Finance Associate, Product

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Finance & Accounting : Finance : Finance

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Manufacturing Finance Associate with 2-4 years of experience. The role involves end-to-end financial management of production execution, including headcount, cash, demand planning, standard costing, production attainment, and product margins. The associate will establish cost transparency, consolidate revenue and costing models, build financial frameworks for operational decisions, support tradeoff studies, develop financial models, adopt standardized data models, identify process improvements, and lead executive-level reporting. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field, strong financial modeling skills, and experience in operations or hardware environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. End to end financial management of production execution: including, but not limited to, headcount, cash/working capital, demand planning, standard costing, production attainment, and managing product margins.
  2. Establish transparency into material cost for existing and future Anduril products.
  3. Work cross functionally with Division Finance and Manufacturing Functional teams to own consolidation of Product Revenue and costing models, business case analyses, and decision making frameworks.
  4. Build novel financial frameworks for thinking through operational decisions, including but not limited to manufacturing, supply chain, etc.
  5. Support cross-functional teams with tradeoff studies to achieve sustainable unit economics.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
  • 2-4 years of experience in manufacturing finance, business unit finance, management consulting, investment banking, or similar
  • Strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
  • Strong analytical aptitude
  • Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work
  • Authorized to work in the United States

Nice to have

  • MBA or technical background (Engineering/Supply Chain/Operations) is a plus