Director of Finance, Air Dominance & Strike

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.

Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) is scaling from development into repeatable manufacturing across all business lines. Finance is a critical enabler of that transition—building the operating cadence, the cost visibility, and the system/process backbone required to reliably quote, build, and deliver at scale.

This role is a close partner to Production Finance and is purpose-built to stand up the “finance production system”: the cost accounting frameworks, the manufacturing execution / ERP integration patterns, and the operating policies that allow Production Finance to run fast with precision.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional leadership position focused on manufacturing finance transformation. You will partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Enterprise Systems to right-size and harden the systems, processes, and controls that underpin production financial performance—while ensuring the AD&S division can scale output without losing cost discipline, inventory integrity, or margin accountability.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in cost accounting and inventory/WIP, and has directly driven MES/ERP-enabled transformations and close/process automation in high-growth manufacturing environments.

• Build the manufacturing finance operating system for AD&S
• Define standard cost / actual cost methodologies, absorption logic, variance taxonomy, and corrective-action workflows
• Establish inventory/WIP policies (valuation, reserves, rework/scrap, LCNRV, E&O, cycle count governance)
• Stand up scalable reporting and performance management:
• Production dashboards (yield, scrap, PPV, labor/machine rates, throughput, inventory turns, standard cost variance bridges)
• Forecasting inputs and unit economics tied to operational drivers (build plans, routings, yields, labor standards)
• Own finance requirements for MES + ERP integration:
• Translate shop-floor realities into clean financial data flows and scalable reporting
• Define master data standards (BOM/routings/work centers/UOM), change controls, and data quality gates
• Improve close and controls for manufacturing accounting (in partnership with Accounting/Corporate):
• Automate manual close activities; reduce cycle time while improving auditability and traceability
• Design control points for inventory movement, WIP aging, variance approvals, and reserve governance
• Enable Production Finance success:
• Create repeatable playbooks, training, and policies so Production Finance can focus on decisions—not data cleanup
• Provide the systemized foundation for pricing, proposals, and margin governance as programs shift into production
• Drive cross-functional transformation projects end-to-end:
• Scope → business case → roadmap → execution → adoption, with clear milestones and measurable outcomes

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience spanning manufacturing finance, cost accounting, operations finance, or manufacturing accounting (with leadership responsibility)
• Demonstrated experience standing up or transforming cost accounting frameworks (standard costing, variance analysis, inventory/WIP)
• Proven track record delivering systems-enabled transformation (MES and/or ERP modernization, data automation, reporting architecture)
• Strong analytical and modeling capabilities; comfort operating with ambiguity and imperfect data
• Exceptional…