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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Director of Finance - Platform

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCosta Mesa, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of progressive finance experience, including exposure to manufacturing, hardware engineering, or government contracting environments.
  • A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
  • Experience building or operating cost allocation, shared-services, or chargeback models within a multi-business-unit organization.
  • Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to independently build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses.
  • Ability to partner with technical and engineering leadership and finance peers across other business units.
  • Advanced Excel and financial systems or enterprise resource planning (ERP) proficiency.
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Own financial planning, forecasting, and monthly and quarterly reporting, including budget development and variance analysis against plan.
  • Design and maintain the cost allocation and chargeback methodology used to bill platform costs back to Divisions and business lines, ensuring the methodology is transparent, defensible, and auditable.
  • Build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses that quantify whether centralized capacity delivers a cost or speed advantage over a Division or business line building or sourcing the capability independently.
  • Develop the capacity planning and prioritization framework platform leadership uses to sequence competing demand across Divisions and business lines, and translate resulting 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 before they surface as surprises in business reviews.
  • Build performance dashboards and key performance indicators, including unit cost (APUC), utilization, throughput, and cost trends versus alternatives, to make platform performance transparent to non-platform stakeholders.
  • Develop return-on-investment and payback analyses to support capacity investment decisions, including new equipment, facilities, and headcount.
  • Partner with platform engineering and operations leadership on strategic decisions, including build-versus-buy, insourcing or outsourcing, and capacity expansion.

Desired 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 and defense manufacturing cost structures.
  • An MBA, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
  • Currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

About the Company

Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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