Special Projects, Finance

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Special Projects team within Finance helps lead Andurils financing strategy complex strategic transactions and cross-functional initiatives that dont sit neatly within any one org. We structure and lead negotiations on some of Andurils largest and most complex deals financing transactions with banks and investors and major commercial engagements with customers owning those processes from internal framing through execution. The work requires getting close to the business: we partner directly with operations contracts supply chain and division finance teams to understand the economics and operating constraints develop a point of view and drive decisions. Beyond transactions we take on high-priority problems that span functions or lack a clear owner working with the relevant teams from initial analysis through implementation.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Special Projects Finance team member to join our growing team in Costa Mesa CA. You will have real ownership early taking on a mix of live transactions and high-priority projects and driving them from initial analysis through execution. The role combines the financial rigor of investing with far closer proximity to the business: you will build the analysis form a view work directly with the teams closest to the problem and turn decisions into action. You should be comfortable working through incomplete information going deep when the details matter and moving between financial models operating discussions and recommendations to senior leadership. This is a role for someone with a strong foundation in investment banking and buyout private equity who wants broader scope and more direct ownership than either seat typically offers.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Own the financial models behind Andurils financings strategic transactions and major investment decisions end-to-end sizing structural alternatives and downside scenarios.
• Drive the analytical workstream on live transactions from first framing through close pressure-testing terms building diligence materials and tracking where each negotiating position actually lands.
• Build operating models that connect the underlying business to financial outcomes. Get deep into how a factory ramps what a program costs to execute and where the business is exposed then translate that analysis for banks investors and other external counterparties.
• Build durable frameworks for capital allocation and investment decisions across new facilities capacity expansion vertical integration and other non-routine commitments.
• Go get the data yourself. Work directly with supply chain manufacturing contracts and program teams pull from our corporate systems and reconcile messy inputs into numbers you would defend line by line.
• Own ambiguous initiatives that have no natural owner. Frame the problem build the analysis land on a recommendation and drive it through implementation.
• Present directly to senior leadership and work across functions from Legal and Accounting to Supply Chain and Manufacturing. You will be expected to defend your analysis navigate competing priorities and bring a group that does not report to you to a decision.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of experience including time at a top-tier investment bank and at a buyout private equity firm ideally with both LevFin or Restructuring experience and industrials coverage.
• Exceptional financial modeling ability. You can build detailed structurally sound models from the ground up but also know when a quick analysis is enough to make the decision at hand.
• Strong command of debt financing structures capital structure and credit. You understand how financing decisions affect the operating decisions that follow.
• Real business judgment and an operational tilt. You can see what actually drives a programs economics and which assumptions are critical even from messy and incomplete information. You are excited to be in the program reviews and on the factory floor where those answers come from.
• A first-principles thinker with strong institutional grounding. You know the standard playbook well enough to know when to use it and when the problem calls for something else.
• Extremely high agency. You are comfortable working through genuinely hard problems dont wait to be told to move and can sprint when the situation demands it.
• Comfortable presenting to large extremely senior audiences and company leadership.
• Demonstrated interest in industrial and defense technology.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Direct operating experience inside a company ideally in a high-growth environment. Candidates combining investment banking buyout private equity and operating experience are particularly compelling.
• Direct project finance structured finance or dedicated financing transaction experience.
• Deep exposure to industrials aerospace and defense or manufacturing businesses whether through coverage deal work or time at a portfolio company.
• Former founder or early-stage operator you have built something without a playbook.
• Undergraduate degree in a STEM engineering or quantitative major.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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