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Director of Finance, Platform

Anduril· Finance & Accounting : Finance : Finance
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Director of Finance to lead financial planning, reporting, and cost strategy for platform organizations (RMS, HW Eng, SWP), owning the P&L and investment planning and serving as internal finance partner to platform leadership and divisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own financial planning, forecasting, and monthly/quarterly reporting, including budget development and variance analysis against plan
  • Design and maintain the cost allocation and chargeback methodology used to bill platform costs back to Divisions and BLs, ensuring the methodology is transparent, defensible, and auditable
  • Build unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses that quantify whether centralized capacity delivers a real cost or speed advantage over a Division/BL
  • Develop the capacity planning and prioritization framework platform leadership uses to sequence competing demand across Divisions and BLs, and translate resulting trade-offs into financial terms for company leadership
  • Partner directly with Division finance leads and business leaders as internal customers, proactively communicating cost trends and variances
  • Build performance dashboards and KPIs (unit cost (APUC), utilization, throughput, cost trend vs. alternatives) for non-platform stakeholders
  • Develop ROI and payback analyses to support capacity investment decisions (new equipment, facilities, headcount)
  • Partner with platform engineering and operations leadership on strategic decisions (build-vs-buy, insourcing/outsourcing, capacity expansion)

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including exposure to manufacturing, hardware engineering, or government contracting environments
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
  • Experience building or operating cost allocation, shared-services, or chargeback models within a multi-business-unit organization
  • Strong financial modeling skills, including independent unit-economics and make-vs-buy analyses
  • Ability to partner with technical/engineering leadership and finance peers across units
  • Advanced Excel and financial systems/ERP proficiency
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

Skills

Required:Financial planning and forecastingCost allocation / chargeback designBudgeting and variance analysisUnit economics / make-vs-buy analysisFinancial partnering with engineering/ops

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package
  • Equity grantspart of total compensation
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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