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Salary: USD 253,000 - 336,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Director of Finance to lead the finance function for its Frontier Systems division, one of the company's fastest-growing business units. This is a high-visibility financial leadership role that combines strategic capital allocation architecture with operational financial rigor across a complex, scaling hardware and defense technology business.
You will lead and develop a team of finance managers and analysts, serving as a strategic advisor to division and business line leaders. Your responsibilities span three core areas:
Leadership & Business Partnering: Build and develop a high-performing finance team, elevate financial support quality across business lines, and serve as a strategic advisor translating financial analysis into resourcing and operational decisions. Guide production and engineering partners in defining KPIs and evaluating performance against productivity and profitability targets.
Strategic Finance: Architect long-term business cases for the division's major bets, including new IP, facility investments, and program pursuits. Translate production ramps, R&D investment, and contract timing into scenario-based outcomes to inform capital deployment decisions. Benchmark against peers in defense, autonomy, and industrial tech to sharpen unit economics and efficiency perspectives. Partner with Growth to shape pricing and commercial models for future products.
Operational Finance: Direct planning for headcount, capital, and operating expense aligned with company targets. Own working capital forecasts and capital expenditure tracking across product lines and contracts. Ensure supply chain financial commitments are tracked as the business scales. Oversee program financial management, including reporting, milestone invoicing, and monthly financial status. Partner with accounting to drive rigorous financial close processes.
This role interfaces extensively with senior leadership across finance, production, engineering, growth, program management, and supply chain to shape and execute the division's long-term business objectives.
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 leadership
- Track record of hiring and developing finance teams and driving process improvement with first principles problem solving
- Proven ability to operate as a strategic business partner across functions, earning trust and influencing decisions before they are made
- Fluency in underlying financial detail, with the ability to build models when needed and defend key assumptions
- U.S. Person status and eligibility to obtain a security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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
