Senior Finance Associate, Engineering

Job description

Job responsibilities

• 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.
• 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…
• Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom. You will interact with Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, 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…
• Build novel financial frameworks for thinking through operational decisions, including but not limited to facilities, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.
• Create novel frameworks for establishing a strong “value engineering” muscle Establish transparency into material cost for existing and future Anduril products
• Build financial models that help set material cost targets for different products
• Work with the Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop and implement cost reduction roadmaps

Job requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or in a finance role at a high growth hardware company
• You have a strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
• You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers
• You are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel
• You have an ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems
• You are willing to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry)
• You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at-times require comms to large groups and senior leadership
• You enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix