Growth Finance Associate
Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Washington, DC$130k - $190kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Growth Finance Associate at Hadrian oversees the economics of winning work, building financial models for large capital decisions, structuring partnerships and JVs, and delivering executive-ready analyses to support pursuit decisions and program economics.
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. This includes scenario modeling, cash flow forecasting, and spend projections.
- 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.
- 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 action.
- 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 with concise, decision-ready findings.
- Improve the reporting, forecasting process, automation, and data infrastructure to address gaps rather than building workarounds.
- Work across Production Operations, Engineering, Program Management, Special Projects, Automation, Accounting, Legal, and Investor Relations.
Qualifications
- 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 — cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis are core.
- Demonstrated ability to carry ambiguous, cross-functional work to a decision without micromanagement.
- Strong written and verbal communication, specifically the ability to compress complex analysis for senior leaders.
- High ownership and genuine curiosity about how physical things get made; comfortable being wrong and iterating quickly.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams.
- U.S. Person status is required (export-controlled data).
Skills
Required:Financial modelingStrategic finance / FP&A
Nice to have:M&A / corporate development
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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