Finance Manager, Operations & Reporting

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. ABOUT THE JOB As Manager of Financial Operations Reporting, you will own the "bearer of truth" function within FPA: ensuring that actuals are clean, timely, and trustworthy so that our Finance Business Partners and Planning Analytics team can focus on insights. This is not a pure close coordinator role. You will diagnose and systematically eliminate the root causes of any close friction—PO errors, misclassifications, accrual gaps—and build the processes and controls that prevent them from recurring. WHAT YOU’LL DO Financial Close Operations • Own the SGA month-end close calendar; coordinate deliverables across FPA, Accounting, and business unit owners • Manage PO review and correction workflows, reclass requests, and accrual support, while actively driving down the volume of these through upstream process improvement • Serve as the primary FPA liaison to the Controller's organization • Document all close procedures into a living SOP library — converting tribal knowledge into repeatable, auditable process Reporting Data Integrity • Own the SGA reporting layer: consolidated actuals, variance packages, and monthly management reporting distributed to FBPs and the Head of FPA • Establish and enforce data standards--account mapping, cost center hierarchies, headcount definitions — so that every number leaving this team is reconciled, labeled, and trusted • Build and maintain the SGA reporting calendar; ensure FBPs receive timely, clean actuals • Partner with PA to design the reporting architecture in Oracle EPM--your close data feeds their forecast models • Proactively flag anomalies in actuals before they surface in leadership reviews Systems Transformation • Serve as FPA's Oracle EPM power user and internal SME, triaging reporting issues, liaise with the implementation team, and ensure our chart of accounts and cost center structure supports both close and planning needs • Lead FPA's workstream in the Anaplan-to-Oracle Planning migration: data validation, model integrity, parallel run testing, and cutover • Identify and drive FinOps improvement projects — PO automation, approval workflow optimization, spend categorization, in partnership with Procurement and Accounting • Evaluate and recommend tooling enhancements that reduce manual work across the close-to-report cycle People Cross-Functional Leadership • Build strong working relationships with the Controller, AP, and GL teams. The quality of our reporting depends on upstream accounting accuracy • Represent FPA in cross-functional process improvement forums (ERP, Procurement, etc.). In your first 90 days: • Close SOP documented for all SGA functions; close calendar published and owned • Oracle EPM reporting issues triaged and resolution timeline defined • Working relationship established with Controllership team; initial draft of close responsibility matrix shared • FBPs receiving clean actuals packages within 2 days of close By end of year one: • FPA's manual close involvement reduced by 30%+ year-over-year • Oracle Planning cutover completed; Anaplan decommissioned • SGA reporting fully automated in Oracle EPM; no manual deck builds for standard management reporting • PO error and reclass rate measurably reduced through upstream process fixes REQUIRED ... (truncated, view full listing at source)