Remote Strategic Finance Analyst

Summary

Join Instacart's Finance team as a Finance Analyst II of Retailer Partnerships to drive strategic and investment recommendations. This role will be a key business partner to business development/sales teams, helping own deal reviews with senior leadership and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders on large deals.

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

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation
• Remote work option
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants