Senior Strategic Finance Manager, Maneuver Dominance

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are seeking a Senior Strategic Finance Manager to own strategic finance for the Maneuver Dominance division.

Ownership & Team Leadership

• Own the strategic finance agenda for the division , setting priorities and driving all strategic finance initiatives end to end.
• Lead and grow the strategic finance team, starting with one direct report, mentoring and scaling the function as MD grows.
• Serve as the division’s go-to strategic finance partner for senior leaders and business line owners.

Strategic Analysis & Modeling

• Build and own sophisticated financial models to evaluate strategic initiatives, new programs, and capital investments from the ground up.
• Run complex, multi-variable scenario and sensitivity analyses to frame decisions and quantify risk, upside, and trade-offs.
• Develop business cases and investment theses for major bets, translating ambiguous strategic questions into rigorous, defensible analysis.

Investment & Portfolio Tracking

• Track and report on the performance of MD’s strategic bets and high-IRAD investments, measuring returns against the original thesis.
• Partner with leadership on capital allocation , prioritizing investments and surfacing trade-offs across the portfolio.
• Monitor program economics and unit costs, flagging where returns are diverging from plan.

Long-Range Planning & Decision Support

• Support long-range planning and strategic forecasting, connecting top-down strategy to bottoms-up financials.
• Partner with business line leaders on their highest-priority strategic and financial questions, bringing the analytical firepower to answer them.
• Build the frameworks and dashboards that make investment performance and strategic progress visible to leadership.

Communication & Influence

• Translate complex models and analyses into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
• Present findings to senior leadership, driving alignment on strategic and investment decisions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field; MBA a plus.
• 6+ years in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, or strategic finance, with a heavy modeling focus.
• Elite financial modeling skills , fluent in Excel and able to build complex, dynamic models from a blank sheet.
• Deep experience running scenario, sensitivity, and valuation analyses (DCF, NPV/IRR, and returns analysis).
• Proven ability to independently own and drive high-stakes strategic initiatives end to end.
• Experience leading or mentoring analysts, with the readiness to manage and grow a team.
• Strong business judgment , able to turn ambiguous strategic questions into structured analysis and clear recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to make complex analysis accessible to executives.
• Exceptional PowerPoint skills for building executive-ready decks under tight timelines.
• Intellectually curious, detail-obsessed, and energized by hard quantitative problems in a fast-moving environment.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.