Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Instacart as a Sr. Financial Analyst and become an expert on Instacart Business, a new platform for businesses to shop on Instacart. Leverage data-driven insights to provide strategic guidance, identify new opportunities, and enhance decision-making within the Instacart Business team. Partner with Instacart leadership (product, data science, design, sales/commercial teams, and c-suite) to develop high-level strategy, formulate business plans, and evaluate resourcing and profitability trade-offs. Work on business problems involving uncertainty, bringing structure, data, and sound judgment to propose solutions. Facilitate strategic planning with cross-functional partners, sizing new opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and implementing performance measurement processes. This role is remote, offering flexibility and competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• You have 4-6+ years of experience in strategy and operations, product analytics, financial analysis, or management consulting with a proven track record of leading successful initiatives
• You are a strategic thinker that can also dive deep into business problems and convey complex ideas to a wide range of audiences with clarity and structure
• You are a self-starter with the ability to quickly respond to problems independently and proactively address conflicting stakeholder requirements to achieve creative compromise
• You have a proven track record of designing and implementing process improvement projects and improving business metrics in resource-constrained environments
• You think with data and are proficient with SQL and dashboarding/BI tools
• You have a basic understanding of statistics and experimentation methodologies

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on current and future customers of Instacart Business, gaining a deep understanding of how we drive growth and solve user problems
• Develop robust analyses around business performance, user behavior, and competitive environment to inform business decisions
• Partner with and influence Instacart leadership (product, data science, design, sales / commercial teams and c-suite) to develop high-level strategy, formulate business plans, and evaluate resourcing and profitability trade-offs
• Work on business problems that involve uncertainty, bringing structure, data, and sound judgment to propose a path forward
• Facilitate strategic planning in collaboration with cross-functional partners, sizing new opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and implementing performance measurement processes

Preferred Qualifications

Masters degrees in business and/or a quantitative discipline (e.g. economics, statistics) and background in marketplace or early stage companies are a plus

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location
• Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role
• Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants