Senior Financial Insights Analyst

Summary

Join Instacart as a Senior Financial Insights Analyst and play a pivotal role in enhancing retail partnerships, identifying financial leakage, and gaining a deep understanding of Instacart's financial flows. This cross-functional role demands a strong ability to analyze financial and transactional data, craft compelling narratives, and present findings effectively. You will be responsible for ensuring accurate retailer invoicing, a key operational aspect impacting financial success and building trust. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and technical skills, including advanced SQL proficiency, and excels at communicating complex information clearly. This highly visible role offers significant impact and the chance to work with a team focused on improving Instacart's financial ecosystem. The position is remote, with compensation and benefits varying based on location.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience
• Crafting a compelling narrative; the ability to identify the insights that are most impactful in answering the key question and an ability to combine those insights into an easy to understand, visually appealing story that helps convince the grocery partner to take action. Very comfortable with Powerpoint / Google Sides. Must have!
• Experience writing advanced SQL queries is a must
• Ability to connect large data sets from multiple systems
• Strong analytical and technical skills; a strong understanding of data and how to structure it to get at the answers we need efficiently
• Dealing with ambiguity; the ability to quickly deconstruct a problem into its most important components, have a good sense of where digging deeper will likely yield results, and coming up with an efficient and high quality approach to solving the problem
• Great composure, comfortable in front of external audiences and in tough conversations
• Very comfortable with Google Slides and/or Microsoft Powerpoint; is able to make slide decks that clearly explain our findings in the data
• Highly comfortable in SQL  to immerse in Instacart’s vast database, pull together the relevant datasets, conduct analysis on the data to extract the key insights. Strong Excel / Google Sheets experience as well
• Understands the big picture, but dives deeper into the details in order to become an expert in all aspects of the invoicing process. No detail is too small for you

Responsibilities

• Deeply engage with our financial and transactional data, perform deep analysis, and craft / present compelling narratives based on your findings
• Deepen Instacart’s Retail Partnerships, identify and close areas of financial leakage, and deeply understand Instacart’s flow of funds
• Be a great team member, help carry the culture, and get things done in a no ego way
• Conduct deep dive analysis that uncovers the root cause of invoicing issues, or to unearth insights
• Develop an expert-level understanding of Instacart’s marketplace data, reporting capabilities, and invoicing processes
• Constantly prioritizing time to make sure you’re working on the most impactful things
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships both internally and externally
• Create dashboards, monitor trends

Preferred Qualifications

• Online marketplace experience or experience working with point-of-sale data
• Experience in external-facing roles (e.g., consulting, banking, other external roles)
• Bonus points for Python skills
• Bonus points for experience with Mode

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is remote
• 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
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants