Strategic Finance, Product Development

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

The Strategic Finance, Product Development role at Anduril Industries focuses on financial analysis for R&D initiatives and existing products. The role involves translating engineering problems into quantitative measures, executing analyses, managing projects across various stakeholders, and building financial models for products, business lines, and acquisitions. It also includes creating frameworks for value engineering, establishing cost targets, and developing cost reduction roadmaps, as well as financially red-teaming engineering plans. The role requires experience in manufacturing or engineering finance, strong analytical and financial skills, and the ability to quantify ambiguous problems.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Own detailed financial models end-to-end, from on-the-ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders
  3. Create novel frameworks for establishing a strong “value engineering” muscle
  4. “Red-Team” engineering plans from a financial / business perspective

Skills

Required

  • 1-2+ years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or in a finance role at a high growth hardware company
  • strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
  • strong analytical aptitude
  • able to quickly execute analyses in Excel
  • ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems
  • willing to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry)
  • comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work
  • U.S. Person

Nice to have

  • experience with Palantir Foundry

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities