Senior Finance Manager, Maneuver Dominance

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $166,000 – $220,000
  • Posted 2026-09-29
  • Confirmed live on 14 October 2026

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Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Maneuver Dominance (MD) business delivers platforms, systems, and integrated effects in the Group 3/4/5 aviation domains. Our autonomous vehicles are the cornerstone of these capabilities, and we continually strive to push the boundaries of the possible in terms of endurance, autonomy and mission capability. The MD team develops and maintains core products and payloads, and adapts and applies those products to serve a wide variety of defense, IC and commercial customers in US and international markets.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking an exceptional finance leader to own the P&L for a portfolio of our autonomous aircraft product lines on the MD Finance team. This role will provide leadership, direction and management of product- and program-level finance teams as MD continues to rapidly scale, with full accountability for the top- and bottom-line performance of the products in their portfolio. This person will oversee financial planning and analysis, program finance, strategic finance and pricing and is expected to recommend and execute on new strategies that drive both top- and bottom-line impact.

This role requires a strong interest in solving operational and financial puzzles with an ability to recognize patterns and collaborate via cross-functional partnership to drive decision-making. You will create frameworks for assessing investment and capital allocation decisions and partner with senior leadership to operationalize the hypotheses and takeaways.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the end-to-end P&L for your product portfolio — top-line growth, gross margin, and capital allocation across the product life cycle.

• Manage the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and oversee the preparation of product- and program-level financial reporting.

• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with forecasts, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances.

• Partner with senior MD and corporate finance leaders to identify and implement ways to improve business performance and finance systems, tools and processes.

• Build executive-level reporting and translate complex financial performance into clear, actionable insights that drive leadership decisions.

• Get deep in the operations and support the team in creating bottoms-up, data-driven models to understand segmentation, pricing optimization, scenarios, and financial returns of our products and investments.

• Own performance dashboards, alerting, and investigation into KPI health. Assess the impact of financial decisions on KPIs while developing strategies which drive demonstrable impact against these metrics.

• Develop deep relationships with our customers (both internal and external) and oversee customer program reporting, monthly invoicing, and monthly financial status reporting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or relevant professional certification (CPA, CFA) is a plus.

• 7+ years of experience in financial analysis, modeling, and forecasting within an FP&A or consulting environment.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, financial modeling and data analysis tools, and experience with financial reporting tools and ERP systems (i.e. Anaplan, Netsuite, Oracle, Foundry).

• Demonstrated ability to lead programs and strategic initiatives in a finance function.

• Proven ownership of a full P&L at scale, ideally in a hardware, manufacturing, or otherwise capital-intensive product business.

• Intellectually curious - you seek to understand the why behind the numbers.

• Highly technical - you value precision and accuracy when it comes to your work, and you can rapidly dissect complex quantitative problems.

• Critical thinker - you consider problems from all angles to remove bias.

• Results-oriented - you will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

• Driven and ambitious - you bring a can-do attitude and the tenacity to see initiatives through to completion.

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. You drive consensus through grounded arguments, interpersonal skills, and negotiation skills.

• Creative problem-solver - able to identify obstacles and present viable solutions.

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