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Finance Associate, Engineering Finance

Anduril· Finance & Accounting : Finance : Finance
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Costa Mesa$99k - $130kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Finance Associate focusing on development and production cost estimations for new products, bridging engineering problems with quantitative financial analysis, and building scalable financial models to forecast product viability and guide cost reduction.

Responsibilities

  • Support 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
  • Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom. You will interact with Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and more
  • Own detailed should cost models end-to-end, from on-the-ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders
  • Build parametric cost models for a variety of products breaking down products into first principles including capability and physics
  • Tying entire product life cycle costs together to forecast product business case viability, opportunities, and risks
  • 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
  • Help executives think through tradeoffs in product features vs. costs vs. profitability

Qualifications

  • You have minimum of 1-2 years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or engineering role
  • You have a strong understanding of mathematics or model building
  • 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 have a deep fascination with the intersection of engineering design and how businesses grow and scale
  • 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
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Skills

Required:Cost modelingParametric cost modelingFinancial modelingExcelCross-functional communication

Benefits

  • Benefits package including health, recovery, and other support; information available via Explore Our Benefits link
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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