Director of Finance

Anduril is looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to join our dynamic team and support this rapidly growing Business. This Director level role will help drive forward looking pricing activities, portfolio product analysis, cost structure analysis, market situational awareness, and resource allocation decisions. The Business will rely on this Lead to develop, grow, and sustain strong collaborate relationships with internal and external Anduril stakeholders.  We are not looking for someone that will just be a service provider but someone that will have a seat at the table and drive strategic & operational growth within various Divisions.

We are looking for a Director of Finance to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In practice, this role will support important decisions with analytical insight and strategic and tactical recommendations to drive the long-term success of the business. You will communicate your findings to senior leadership and partner with others to operationalize the hypotheses and takeaways. You will be a driver on all major proposal efforts, customer negotiations, contract execution, strategic planning, and operational financial management practices. This role requires a strong interest in solving puzzles with an ability to recognize patterns and collaborate via cross-functional partnership (Data, Marketing, Product, Growth, and Engineering) to drive effective decision-making. You will be tasked with identifying business opportunities, formulating hypotheses, and conducting in-depth analyses which illuminate opportunities to drive success. We expect this person to recommend new initiatives and strategies which drive a bottom-line impact, while designing customer-facing experiments and partnering with peers to develop solutions and assess go-to-market feasibility.

• Daily partnership with Senior Leaders within the Business to bring first class financial expertise and Fractional CFO level support. 
• Perform activities that drive efficient planning and execution of financials and resource analysis (FTE's) across various functions, including but not limited to engineering operations, supply chain, program management, sustainment, business finance, and /or planning/scheduling.
• Compile and review budgets using actual performance, previous budget figures, expense reports, and other data sources to control funds and provide for proper financial administration.
• Perform multiple financial cost analysis functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs, and preparing reports that maintain the company's cost accounting system.
• Customer program reporting as required, including but not limited to monthly invoicing, monthly financial status reporting, and input into annual incurred cost proposal process.
• Backlog Review Coordination.
• Present at various weekly/monthly Leadership Reviews.
• Perform ad-hoc modeling and reporting as required.
• Collaborate with data and product to translate a/b tests into forecasted profit and unit-economic impact.
• Own performance dashboards, alerting, and investigation into KPI health. Assess the impact of new product features on KPIs while developing strategies which drive demonstrable impact against those same metrics.
• Develop post-launch monitoring and optimization plans.
• Support forecast model maintenance and build bottoms up, data driven models to understand segmentation, pricing optimization, and financial impact analysis.
• Identify business opportunities, formulate hypotheses, and conduct in-depth analyses which illuminate opportunities to drive further success.
• Recommend new initiatives and strategies which drive a bottom-line impact.

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 10-15+ years of Finance experience working for Big Tech, Large Manufacturing, or Govt contracting. Preferably minimum of 5 years in Leadership position.
• Intellectually curious - you seek to understand the why behind the numbers.
• Highly technical - you value precision and accuracy when it comes to your work, and you can rapidly dissect complex quantitative problems.
• Critical thinker - you consider problems from all angles to remove bias.
• Results-oriented - you will do whatever it takes to ensure success. You ground your contributions in real customer and business impact and prioritize your time to maximize speed-to-impact.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. You drive consensus through grounded arguments, interpersonal skills, and negotiation skills.
• Creative problem-solver - able to identify obstacles and present viable solutions.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Excited by large breadth of problems.
• Confidence to execute in highly visible and accountable positions.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities