# Senior Director of Finance, Frontier Systems

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Reston, Virginia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re looking for a Senior Director to join the finance team supporting one of Anduril’s fastest-growing divisions. This is a high-visibility financial leadership role responsible for leading and developing a team who drive capital allocation and contract/program profitability across our Frontier Systems division.

The successful candidate will operate at both the strategic level , architecting sustainable financial models and shaping the division’s capital allocation , and the operational level , embedding with division and business line leaders to drive day-to-day financial rigor.

**Leadership & Business Partnering**

- Build, lead, and develop a team of finance managers and analysts, elevating the quality and consistency of financial support across business lines

- Serve as strategic advisor to business line and division leaders, translating financial analysis into resourcing, tradeoff, and operational decisions

- Guide production and engineering partners in defining KPIs and evaluating performance against productivity and profitability targets

**Strategic Finance**

- Build and pressure-test the long-term business cases behind the division’s biggest bets, including new IP, facility investments, and major program pursuits

- Inform the division’s long-range plan by translating production ramps, R&D investment, and contract timing into scenario-based outcomes that give executive leadership a coherent view of where and when to deploy capital

- Benchmark against peers across defense, autonomy, and industrial tech to sharpen the division’s point of view on unit economics, efficiency, and capital allocation

- Partner with Growth to shape pricing structures and new commercial models for the division’s future products and programs

**Operational Finance**

- Direct planning for headcount, capital, and operating expense, ensuring alignment with company targets

- Own working capital forecasts and capital expenditure tracking across a portfolio of product lines and contracts

- Ensure supply chain financial commitments are tracked and governed appropriately as the business scales

- Oversee program financial management, including program reporting, milestone invoicing, and monthly financial status, atop strong relationships with customer and program counterparts

- Partner with accounting to drive a rigorous financial close, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency across the division

**Required Qualifications**

- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership at a company scaling through significant revenue and headcount growth

- Ownership of a full planning cycle, including long-range planning, annual operating planning, and rolling forecasts for a business of meaningful complexity

- Strong command of hardware/product economics, including unit cost, gross margin, inventory and working capital, and the cash implications of building physical products

- Experience preparing materials for and presenting to senior leadership

- Track record of hiring and developing finance teams and driving process improvement with first principles problem solving

- Proven ability to operate as a strategic business partner across functions, earning trust and influencing decisions before they are made

- Fluency in the underlying financial detail, with the ability to build models when needed and defend key assumptions

- U.S. Person status and eligibility to obtain a security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Manufacturing or industrial finance experience, including capital project evaluation and factory ramp planning

- Exposure to IPO readiness, public-company reporting, or debt and equity financing processes

## Skills

### Required
- FP&A
- financial leadership
- capital allocation
- financial modeling
- strategic planning
- operational finance
- leadership
- team development
- communication

### Nice to have
- manufacturing finance
- industrial finance
- IPO readiness
- public-company reporting
- debt and equity financing

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