Strategic Finance Associate

In Finance, we work hand-in-hand with leaders across the company to ensure smooth, disciplined execution of strategic business objectives. Our Strategic Finance team provide comprehensive financial insight into the business through regional and functional business partnering, forecasting and budgets, and pricing and incentives.

**About the Role**:
As part of the Strategic Finance team, you will help scale the financial reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities and empower decision makers across our different businesses and functions.

You will play a key role in all aspects of financial reporting and make significant contributions to high-profile strategic and operational initiatives.

Your focus will be on US and Canada Delivery Regional Finance - you will be in charge of ensuring we make sound financial decisions on our capital allocation and operational execution strategy across all key markets in the Uber Eats portfolio for United States and Canada.

So if you're ready to dive into a rewarding set of challenges and you've got the proven financial skills, experience, passion, and strong team mentality - read on and get in touch

**What You'll Do**:

- ** Sophisticated financial modeling**: build models from scratch, improve existing models, and break sophisticated models down into components that consolidate;
- ** Think strategically and implement**: the models we build aid in decision making and strategy - we operationalize our insights and support daily execution;
- ** Monthly close**: analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and build/discuss potential action plans with cross-functional customers;
- ** Operational improvement**: help improve our planning processes and ensure finance standard methodologies spread through the organization. Collaborate with Accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals;
- ** Business optimization**: support initiatives that optimize our global UberEats P&L. Partner with the Senior Finance Management to provide financial insights and assess the company's overall progress towards its strategic objectives;
- ** Innovate**: we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical abilities;
- ** Special projects**: new initiatives always come up, you will have the chance to chip in beyond regular model work.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- 1.5+ years of relevant professional experience

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Outstanding analytical skills - standard methodologies are second-nature, your models are efficient, scalable, and intuitive
- Excellent communication and people skills - numbers are key, but a business is built with people
- A teamwork mentality and an ability to communicate assertively that will ensure positive relationships with cross functions.
- Self-starter - you will take initiative, be dedicated, set and drive toward goals
- Ability to prioritize - we are consistently working on multiple projects at any given time, so we are looking for someone who is comfortable working in an ambiguous environment and has the ability to optimally multitask
- Standout colleague - this is a highly collaborative and encouraging team environment
- Experience with Excel/gsheets, SQL, and/or statistical software package

At Uber, we reimagine the way the world moves for the better. The idea was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then, our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform moving people and things in ever-expanding ways, taking on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters make movement happen at the push of a button for everyone, everywhere.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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