Lead Analyst, Pricing Operations
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
Job Summary
Andurils Pricing Operations team sits at the core of driving domestic and international market expansion by building and implementing corporate-wide pricing frameworks. The team partners cross-functionally with Growth Proposal & Capture Legal FP&A and Program teams to streamline proposal processes while ensuring accuracy compliance and a deliberate balance of competitiveness profitability and revenue growth. As Anduril scales its portfolio this central team sets the standard that individual business lines execute against.
As a Senior Analyst Pricing Operations you will partner with Andurils Product Line leadership Business Development Proposal & Capture Program Management and FP&A to execute financial analyses and proposal cost volumes and to build the models templates and processes that business-line pricing teams rely on. Your core focus is corporate pricing operations but you will flex to support individual business divisions on strategic pursuits as demand requires.
The right person has a deep understanding of cost estimating pricing strategy financial modeling and regulatory compliance and is energized by a fast-paced environment where you scale frameworks rather than just complete one-off tasks. If you think strategically move without being told to and enjoy having your work seen by senior leadership this role is for you.
Strategic Proposal Leadership
- Lead and track strategic proposals from opportunity to award be a stakeholder in proposal kick-offs and review while ensure progress compliance and financial alignment with business objectives.
- Prepare timely high-quality detailed and compliant cost and price proposals for federal and commercial solicitations including U.S. DoD and International customers across RFPs RFQs and RFIs.
- Generate submission-ready cost proposal artifacts ensuring all cost elements are accounted for assumptions are documented and necessary cross-referencing is included.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand technical requirements basis of estimates risks and opportunities and translate them into compliant cost proposals.
- Coordinate with contracts and capture and proposal teams on proposal documents and responses to government requests while adhering to deadlines and submission requirements.
Financial Modeling & Analysis
- Develop comprehensive pricing models templates and training utilized by business-line pricing teams and maintain them for both internal and external use.
- When required exercise significant autonomy in analyzing statistical and proposal data to develop independent pricing recommendations that support customer negotiations.
- Conduct risk analysis what-if scenarios and cost realism assessments to ensure pricing accuracy and executability.
Process Compliance & Operations
- Continually assess and improve the estimating processes and tools used by the team to maintain efficiency and accuracy leading process-improvement projects as needed.
- Ensure cost proposals comply with solicitation instructions government regulations (FAR DFARS TINA) and corporate policies including requirements specific to CPFF T&M and FFP contracts.
- Maintain accurate complete records of pricing templates proposal files supporting documentation and historical data and keep proposal tracking metrics current.
- Support DCAA and DCMA audit reviews as required ensuring transparency and adherence to cost estimating policies and procedures.
- Bachelors Degree in Business Accounting Engineering a mathematical field or a related discipline.
- 8 years of directly related experience in proposal / pricing / cost development with demonstrated experience developing both government and commercial proposals and familiarity across CPFF FFP and T&M contracts and subcontracts specifically a strong understanding of how indirect rates and burden costs work in relationship to cost modeling.
- Demonstrated extensive work experience and full understanding of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA).
- Demonstrated ability to design develop and implement financial analysis tools and processes such as pricing cost models.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel (financial modeling pivot tables complex formulas); proficient in Word and PowerPoint.
- Deep hands-on working experience with ProPricer.
- Self-driven and relentlessly proactive. You dont need someone to tell you to move you just move and you step into the gap to offer solutions yourself.
- Comfortable communicating broadly and having many eyes on your work including comms to large groups and senior leadership.
- S. Person status is required; must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
- Experience contributing to investment strategy and financial management for a business line or division (e.g. investment cases portfolio prioritization and business-outcome analysis).
- Experience in Material Estimating or Defense Contracting Finance.
- Experience in Engineering Supply Chain or Operations finance.
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. Salesforce Oracle Palantir Foundry) and financial reporting tools.
- Active Secret clearance.
US Salary Range
$129000 - $171000 USD
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:
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