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Salary: USD 191,000 - 253,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Director of Finance to lead financial planning, reporting, and cost strategy for its Platform Teams (Rocket Motor Systems, HW Engineering, and Software Platform). These platform organizations provide shared technology and manufacturing capabilities that divisions across Anduril depend on.
In this role, you will own the P&L and investment planning for platform organizations, serving as both an internal finance business partner to platform leadership and an honest broker to the divisions that rely on platform services. You will be the leader divisions turn to when evaluating the ROI of shared capabilities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own financial planning, forecasting, and monthly/quarterly reporting, including budget development and variance analysis
- Design and maintain cost allocation and chargeback methodology to bill platform costs back to divisions and business lines, ensuring transparency, defensibility, and auditability
- Build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses to quantify whether centralized capacity delivers cost or speed advantages over independent division/BL sourcing
- Develop capacity planning and prioritization frameworks that sequence competing demand and translate trade-offs into financial terms for company leadership
- Partner directly with division finance leads and business leaders as internal customers, proactively communicating cost trends and variances
- Build performance dashboards and KPIs (unit cost, utilization, throughput, cost trends) to make platform performance transparent to non-platform stakeholders
- Develop ROI and payback analyses to support capacity investment decisions (equipment, facilities, headcount)
- Partner with platform engineering and operations leadership on strategic decisions including build-vs-buy, insourcing/outsourcing, and capacity expansion
This is a strategic finance role requiring deep understanding of shared-services economics, internal customer dynamics, and the ability to translate complex operational trade-offs into clear financial narratives.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including exposure to manufacturing, hardware engineering, or government contracting environments
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- Experience building or operating cost allocation, shared-services, or chargeback models within a multi-business-unit organization
- Strong financial modeling skills, including ability to independently build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses
- Demonstrated ability to partner with both technical/engineering leadership and finance peers across other business units
- Advanced Excel and financial systems/ERP proficiency
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Prior experience in a shared-services, platform, or internal-supplier finance role, including experience being evaluated by internal customers with real alternatives to the service provided
- Familiarity with aerospace/defense manufacturing cost structures
- MBA, CPA, or CFA
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
