Growth Finance Associate

• Growth Finance owns the economics of how Hadrian wins work
• We sit at the front end of every program — pricing the pursuit, shaping the deal, and structuring the partnerships and joint ventures that get new capacity off the ground with our commercial and government customers
• The Associate is the analytical center of that work
• You’ll build the model behind a pursuit from a blank sheet: unit economics, capacity and capex requirements, rate and margin structure, and the returns case that determines whether we bid, at what price, and on what terms
• You’ll pressure-test your own assumptions before anyone else gets the chance, and you’ll be expected to have a view — not just a spreadsheet — on whether a program is worth pursuing
• Beyond the model, you’ll help structure the vehicles
• That means partnership and JV economics, term sheets, waterfall and downside mechanics, and the diligence behind counterparties we’re considering taking risk with
• You’ll write the memo that goes to leadership, and you’ll defend it in the room
• This is a small team with a short path to owning deals outright
• The work available to you scales with what you demonstrate rather than with tenure
• Build and own financial models for Hadrian’s largest capital decisions — factory builds, new capability investments across welding, casting, forging, and additive, and program-level spend. This includes scenario modeling, cash flow forecasting, and spend projections
• Own the financial evaluation of individual investments end to end, applying transaction-level rigor: ROI, payback period, cash impact, and the explicit trade-offs across cost, schedule, and scope
• Support corporate development and capital markets work spanning M&A, carve-outs, equity investments, and joint ventures — from market research and target screening through diligence, structuring, and modeling
• Act as the financial counterpart to engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership. Many initiatives reach you as an engineering idea and a number on a whiteboard; you bring visibility, structure, and accountability
• Maintain forecasts and consolidated budgets that tie to our accounting frameworks, and keep financial plans aligned to operational milestones and program timelines
• Provide real-time insight into program performance — surfacing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs early enough for someone to act on them
• Analyze the operational drivers that determine whether a factory is economic: labor productivity, machine utilization, throughput, and unit cost performance
• Translate analysis into executive- and board-facing materials. Your work will be read by people who decide in minutes, so the “so what” has to survive compression
• Improve the plumbing. Find and fix gaps in reporting, forecasting process, automation, and data infrastructure rather than building workarounds
• Work across functions constantly — Production Operations, Engineering, Program Management, Special Projects, Automation, Accounting, Legal, and Investor Relations

Benefits

• 100% coverage of platinum medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  401k
• Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of LA
• Flexible vacation policy- High ownership and genuine curiosity about how physical things get made. Comfort being wrong in public, and iterating quickly when you are
• Ability to build a complex financial model from a blank page — not only to maintain one you inherited. Cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis are core, not adjacent
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams without dropping any of them
• 2-5 years experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity or growth equity, private credit, management consulting, corporate development, and/or strategy & operations
• Strong written and verbal communication, specifically the ability to compress a complex analysis into something a senior leader can act on immediately
• Demonstrated ability to carry ambiguous, cross-functional work all the way to a decision without being managed to it. We would rather tell you to slow down than to speed up
• Experience in capital-intensive industries — aerospace and defense, advanced manufacturing, automotive, semiconductors, energy, or data centers
• M&A due diligence, transaction structuring, carve-outs, transaction advisory, or restructuring
• Project finance, capital project analysis, or large-scale infrastructure and high-dollar investment work
• Exposure to program management or large-scale project delivery
• Experience in a high-growth or PE/VC-backed environment
• Working knowledge of government contracting processes and procedures
• NetSuite or comparable ERP experience
• U.S. Person status is required