Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance
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><h3>ABOUT THE TEAM</h3> <p>We are seeking a seasoned Senior Financial Analyst with 3-5 years of experience to join our Workforce Finance team within Corporate FP&A. As Anduril rapidly scales to transform defense technology, this role is critical to ensuring we build a strategically aligned, efficient workforce. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in workforce planning, financial modeling, business partnering, and process improvement—ideally with exposure to hypergrowth companies or defense/aerospace industries. This individual will be instrumental in driving workforce financial strategy, guiding headcount decisions across the enterprise, and optimizing our most important investment—our people.</p> <h4>WHAT YOU’LL DO</h4> <ul> <li><strong>Strategic Workforce Planning & Analysis</strong></li> <ul> <li>Lead building structure for enterprise headcount planning and forecasting in a hypergrowth defense technology environment</li> <li>Develop labor cost models and scenario analysis to support rapid scaling across Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations</li> <li>Align workforce investments with business strategy, growth objectives, and government contract requirements</li> <li>Support ad-hoc analysis on workforce trends, hiring velocity, and organizational evolution</li> </ul> <li><strong>Workforce Financial Management & Reporting</strong></li> <ul> <li>Track cost-per-hire, labor efficiency metrics, and workforce costs aligned to contract vehicles and program budgets</li> </ul> <li><strong>Analytics & Insights</strong></li> <ul> <li>Build workforce cost analytics and benchmarking against defense, aerospace, and high-growth tech companies</li> <li>Analyze productivity metrics: revenue per employee, ACV per employee, department ratio analysis</li> <li>Track industry ratios for Departments in SG&A, Manufacturing, and Engineering functions</li> <li>Model workforce composition and efficiency across program types (production, R&D, customer-funded, IRAD)</li> <li>Conduct organizational design analytics and turnover cost analysis</li> </ul> <li><strong>Data Systematization & Automation</strong></li> <ul> <li>Systematize workforce data to establish single source of truth for all reporting across a rapidly scaling organization</li> <li>Collaborate with HR, IT, and Finance to ensure data integrity</li> <li>Drive automation and analytics to surface business trends and scaling challenges</li> <li>Implement workforce reporting tools that support corporate and government reporting requirements</li> </ul> <li><strong>Planning, Budgeting & Compliance</strong></li> <ul> <li>Lead annual headcount and compensation planning cycles</li> <li>Own merit increase, promotion budgeting, and contingent workforce spend management</li> <li>