Lead Financial Analyst, Consolidations
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p><strong>ABOUT THE TEAM</strong></p> <p><br>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 real-time, 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.<br><br><strong>ABOUT THE JOB</strong></p> <p><br>We are seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to join our Corporate Finance team. This individual will join the Consolidations team, serving as the connective tissue across Corporate and Division finance teams to produce financial analysis and insights across Anduril’s business. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and highly collaborative, with an FP&A, consulting or investment banking background, a high standard for accuracy, and the instinct to ask why a number moved rather than simply reporting that it did. This individual will aggregate and validate financial data across divisions, and produce the analysis that the team builds its executive narrative on for the CFO and the C-Suite. This role works across every business unit at Anduril, providing an executive level view of the entire company’s financial performance.<br><br><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Run the Cadence: </strong>Execute the financial operating calendar (monthly, quarterly, annually), owning the templates, data pulls, and deliverables that make each cycle land on time, and chasing inputs from cross-functional partners ahead of key deadlines.</li> <li><strong>Consolidate the Numbers: </strong>Own the mechanics of consolidated budgeting, forecasting, and annual planning — collecting and validating division submissions, and building the consolidated view of actuals against plan and forecast.</li> <li><strong>Explain the Variances: </strong>Produce clear, accurate variance and driver analysis at the company, division, and business-line level, and draft the first version of the story behind it — what moved, why, and what it implies — for review by the team and delivery to C-Suite.</li> <li><strong>Prepare Executive Materials: </strong>Build the exhibits, models, and presentation materials used in monthly business reviews, quarterly reviews, and planning sessions, to a standard that holds up to scrutiny without rework.</li> <li><strong>Build for Scale: </strong>Treat recurring manual work as a problem to be solved, not a cost of doing business. Use AI tooling and modern data tools to compress the distance between raw data and fini