Senior Finance Manager – Real Estate Strategy & Development

Anduril’s Corporate FP&A group is seeking a Senior Finance Manager – Real Estate Strategy & Development to join our team and lead the design and development of future global real estate program initiatives. This is a Costa Mesa based role and not eligible for remote/hybrid work. 

As the Senior Finance Manager – Real Estate Strategy & Development, you will lead the strategy, design, and execution of our global real estate initiatives across various office campuses and manufacturing facilities worldwide. You’ll balance creative design with operational needs, drive scalable solutions that align with our operational model, and manage key relationships with external partners and internal teams. This role is critical to developing innovative approaches to our unique real estate challenges.

The challenges you will encounter are innumerable and unpredictable, but you will be expected to take ownership of delivering the technical program solution by overseeing the strategic planning, development, and execution of real estate acquisitions and new construction projects. This role involves building and managing a team of professionals, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards in accordance with government regulations explicitly relevant to the defense industry.

Through strategic planning, project management, and real estate life cycle management this role will work directly with business leaders to execute on short- and long-term real estate strategies to build processes and tools allowing us to scale execution on future real estate activities. This position offers a central role in Anduril’s strategic growth planning and execution.

Key job functions will include:

• Develop and implement a global real estate strategy that supports a distributed workforce and strategic manufacturing operations.
• Oversee and maintain active market research and current real estate portfolio analysis.
• Coordinate closely with our internal occupancy planning team to develop a thoughtful real estate leasing strategy that balances the short term and long-term needs of the business, incorporates HR and occupancy planning data, and aligns with broader company goals.
• Execute on mission-aligned real estate opportunities through new builds and potential acquisitions, leading new site selection and overseeing design and construction projects to ensure functional and innovative workspaces that balance employee experience with operational efficiencies in accordance with Anduril’s long-term global real estate strategies and initiatives.
• Own key real estate tools and documents including updates to LOI and lease standards, sales forecasting, and pipeline management systems.
• Draft and create a large variety of analyses and relevant documents, including but not limited to: project initiation, market comparable reports, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), proposal comparison packages, letters of intent, financial analysis, and approval memos.
• Manage critical dates reports, working closely with accounting, finance and legal to accurately forecast activity, report on financial performance, validate and control vendor costs, and document all real estate transactions.
• Develop and manage project budgets and financial forecasts, ensuring cost-effective solutions while maintaining high design standards and timelines in accordance with industry regulations.
• Closely monitor and regulate on-going project expenditures, ensuring rigorous cost control measures are in place.
• Prepare financial reports and present to senior management and stakeholders.
• Meet regularly with business partners to understand real estate needs by team and by location.
• Develop and communicate clear business cases for the analysis, review, and financial approval of real estate projects.
• Develop and implement pipeline management tracking and mechanisms to scale and easily identify issues and potential opportunities.
• Draft and present Quarterly Business Reviews outlining progress to date and go forward strategy for global real estate at Anduril.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
• Closely manage relationships with our landlords and real estate partners, working closely alongside ITDE, Security & EHS on up front site selection due diligence.

Qualifications:

• Proven track record of managing complex real estate projects globally, from strategy to execution.
• Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale construction projects in a retail and corporate environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions for workplace design and location strategies.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams, consultants, and vendors, balancing collaboration with accountability.
• Strong financial acumen and experience with budgeting and financial management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to deliver high-impact results on time and within budget.
• Ability to gather requirements from various stakeholders and company leadership, communicate and teach complex subjects with clarity and simplicity, build trust cross-functionally, navigate customer hierarchies, and influence teams in a peer-leadership capacity.
• Comfortable with analyzing, communicating and making business recommendations on real estate trends and portfolio conditions.
• Strong aptitude for problem solving in unstructured situations across all phases and mechanisms of real estate development processes. Ability to drive challenging and vague technical problems to clarity and resolution.

Nice to haves: 

• 10+ years of experience in Real Estate, Facilities, Construction, or Workplace Strategy, with a focus on design and strategic planning for a distributed workforce, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role managing a team of close collaborators.
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, real estate finance or a related field.
• Extreme attention to detail and with the ability to anticipate, prioritize, and adapt to changing workload situations.
• Previous experience with organizing and resolving legal and financial matters related to real estate activities and modifying contracts in partnership with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic corporate environment with significant autonomy.
• Vast knowledge of local, state, and federal regulations related to real estate and construction.