Senior Manager, Maritime Finance

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.

Anduril Maritime delivers platforms, systems, and integrated effects in the maritime domain. Our autonomous vehicles (sub‑surface and surface) are the cornerstone of these capabilities, and we continually push the boundaries of endurance, autonomy, and mission capability. The Maritime 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 the U.S. and international markets.

We are seeking a seasoned finance leader to join the Maritime Finance team. This role will provide leadership, direction, and management of product‑ and program‑level finance teams as Maritime continues to rapidly scale. The person will oversee financial planning and analysis, program finance, strategic finance, and pricing, and is expected to recommend and execute new strategies that drive 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. The individual will create frameworks for assessing investment and capital allocation decisions and partner with senior leadership to operationalize the hypotheses and takeaways.

• 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 Maritime and corporate finance leaders to identify and implement ways to improve business performance and finance systems, tools and processes.
• Lead the development of executive‑level reporting and present financial insights to senior management.
• 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.
• Manage and scale a dedicated finance team in line with the needs of the business by developing and hiring best‑in‑class talent and implementing best practices and tools to ensure a well‑controlled yet flexible finance organization.
• 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.

• 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 (e.g., Anaplan, Net Suite, Oracle, Foundry).
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs and strategic initiatives in a finance function.
• Intellectually curious – seeks to understand the why behind the numbers.
• Highly technical – values precision and accuracy and can rapidly dissect complex quantitative problems.
• Critical thinker – considers problems…