Growth Finance Associate

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build and own financial models for Hadrian's largest capital decisions — factory builds, new capability investments across welding, casting, forging, and additive, and program-level spend.
• Own the financial evaluation of individual investments end to end, applying transaction-level rigor: ROI, payback period, cash impact, and the explicit trade-offs across cost, schedule, and scope.
• Support corporate development and capital markets work spanning M&A, carve-outs, equity investments, and joint ventures — from market research and target screening through diligence, structuring, and modeling.
• Act as the financial counterpart to engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership. Many initiatives reach you as an engineering idea and a number on a whiteboard; you bring visibility, structure, and accountability.
• Maintain forecasts and consolidated budgets that tie to our accounting frameworks, and keep financial plans aligned to operational milestones and program timelines.
• Provide real-time insight into program performance — surfacing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs early enough for someone to act on them.
• Analyze the operational drivers that determine whether a factory is economic: labor productivity, machine utilization, throughput, and unit cost performance.
• Translate analysis into executive- and board-facing materials. Your work will be read by people who decide in minutes, so the "so what" has to survive compression.

Job requirements

• 2-5 years experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity or growth equity, private credit, management consulting, corporate development, and/or strategy & operations.
• Ability to build a complex financial model from a blank page — not only to maintain one you inherited. Cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis are core, not adjacent.
• Demonstrated ability to carry ambiguous, cross-functional work all the way to a decision without being managed to it. We would rather tell you to slow down than to speed up.
• Strong written and verbal communication, specifically the ability to compress a complex analysis into something a senior leader can act on immediately.
• High ownership and genuine curiosity about how physical things get made. Comfort being wrong in public, and iterating quickly when you are.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams without dropping any of them.
• U.S. Person status is required, as this position needs access to export-controlled data.