Senior Director of Finance, Frontier Systems
Anduril · Reston, United States +1 · 9d ago
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE JOB
We’re looking for a Senior Director to join the finance team supporting one of Anduril’s fastest-growing divisions. This is a high-visibility financial leadership role responsible for leading and developing a team who drive capital allocation and contract/program profitability across our Frontier Systems division. The successful candidate will operate at both the strategic level — architecting sustainable financial models and shaping the division’s capital allocation — and the operational level — embedding with division and business line leaders to drive day-to-day financial rigor. This role will interface with senior leadership across finance, production, engineering, growth, program management, and supply chain to shape and execute on the division’s long-term business objectives.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Leadership & Business Partnering
- Build, lead, and develop a team of finance managers and analysts, elevating the quality and consistency of financial support across business lines
- Serve as strategic advisor to business line and division leaders, translating financial analysis into resourcing, tradeoff, and operational decisions
- Guide production and engineering partners in defining KPIs and evaluating performance against productivity and profitability targets
Strategic Finance
- Build and pressure-test the long-term business cases behind the division’s biggest bets, including new IP, facility investments, and major program pursuits
- Inform the division’s long-range plan by translating production ramps, R&D investment, and contract timing into scenario-based outcomes that give executive leadership a coherent view of where and when to deploy capital
- Benchmark against peers across defense, autonomy, and industrial tech to sharpen the division’s point of view on unit economics, efficiency, and capital allocation
- Partner with Growth to shape pricing structures and new commercial models for the division’s future products and programs
Operational Finance
- Direct planning for headcount, capital, and operating expense, ensuring alignment with company targets
- Own working capital forecasts and capital expenditure tracking across a portfolio of product lines and contracts
- Ensure supply chain financial commitments are tracked and governed appropriately as the business scales
- Oversee program financial management, including, program reporting, milestone invoicing, and monthly financial status, atop strong relationships with customer and program counterparts
- Partner with accounting to drive a rigorous financial close, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency across the division
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 the 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.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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