Strategic Finance

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.

TLDR:

You will own high-priority financial analyses that underpin major initiatives around Anduril

You will partner with leadership and teams from across the business to unpack ambiguous problems, develop a thorough understanding, and provide solutions (with a financial lens)

Your work will vary from quick-turn analytical problem solving to process improvements and building out financial models

You will support growth and international teams with investment analysis, corporate planning, and market intelligence integration

The Strategic Finance team at Anduril has three primary responsibilities:

Special projects. We are frequently pulled into high priority problems that must be solved, but do not fall neatly into the purview of an existing person’s job description. Our team is one of the first to get tapped when a messy problem needs solving

Pricing Strategy. We are a key pillar in how we price products across the company. Anduril is at the forefront of new technologies that require novel pricing and contracting structures – and our team owns a large part of this

Maturing Financial Frameworks. Our team is at the forefront of how Anduril thinks about investments (incl. new products, new facilities, etc.). Its our job to bring financial rigor to these decisions and to mature our decision-making process

This role specifically:

This position sits within Strategic Finance but works across Growth Operations and Corporate Planning functions. Based in DC, you'll split time roughly 50% on core Strategic Finance work and 50% supporting growth and international teams with investment analysis, corporate planning, and integrating market and policy intelligence.

What you’ll do on the Strategic Finance Team:

Own projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them

Execute scrappy analyses on short timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term

Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you

Support growth and international teams with investment analysis, deal pipeline framing, and resource planning

Integrate market and policy intelligence into financial analysis and growth planning work

Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom. You will interact with Finance, Growth, Engineering, Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR, Recruiting, and more

Own detailed financial models end-to-end, from on-the-ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders

Build P L models for different products, business lines, divisions, and acquisitions

Build novel financial frameworks for thinking through operational decisions, including but not limited to facilities, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.

e.g. Build a 10-Y model for a new product Anduril is considering

e.g. How should Anduril approach capital allocation decisions and think about capital structure?

e.g. How should Anduril think about international opportunities?

Work on novel pricing frameworks for new technologies that the USG has never acquired before

Build out models to justify $ pricing and show how it impacts Anduril and the customer

Brainstorm / ideate on different ways of monetizing Anduril products and technology

Deeply embed with engineering, sales, and proposals teams on major new efforts

e.g. How much should Anduril charge for a new variant of Dive-LD?

e.g. How should Anduril structure the pricing on software licenses that provide autonomy to drones?

Required Qualifications:

You have 5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, or similar

You have a strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts

You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and can translate them into strategic, actionable insights

You are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel

You are self-driven and relentlessly proactiv…