Instacart is hiring a
Strategic Finance Analyst

Summary

Join our team as a Finance Analyst of Retailer Partnerships and help drive strategic and investment recommendations. As a key business partner to business development/sales teams, you will own deal reviews with senior leadership and partner with cross-functional stakeholders on large deals. With exceptional analytical capabilities and data-driven decision making, you will identify opportunities to improve deal outcomes, establish deal terms that align incentives across all stakeholders, run analysis on ROI, payback, and strategic value of each major deal, develop and monitor deeper understanding of the entire P&L to improve unit economics, and report on key metrics tracking. This role is remote and offers highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Economics, Finance, Business or other related field
• 3-5 years work experience in a relevant field with demonstrated financial acumen and a track record of leveraging data for business impact
• Highly proficient in advanced Excel modeling with strong attention to detail
• Basic knowledge of SQL is required
• Ability to use data to identify and quantify opportunities for growth or profitability improvement
• Demonstrated experience thinking strategically about complex business problems, developing frameworks and providing recommendations
• A self-starter with a positive attitude and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment

Responsibilities

• Serve as the direct business partner to the head of new retailer partnerships and major retailer teams
• Identify and execute on opportunities to improve deal outcomes
• Work across teams to establish deal terms that align incentives across all stakeholders in the ecosystem
• Run analysis on ROI, payback, and strategic value of each major deal
• Develop, monitor, and drive deeper understanding of the entire P&L to improve unit economics and report on key metrics tracking
• Ad hoc financial modeling and analysis + using SQL to self-serve data for analyses

Preferred Qualifications

• Strategic Finance experience at a fast-paced, high-growth technology company is preferred
• Experience with partnerships and consumer marketplaces is strongly preferred
• Advanced SQL and data visualization knowledge is preferred
• Polished communication skills and comfort working with internal stakeholders, including senior leadership

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation
• Benefits in each location where our employees work
• Remote work option
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants