In Finance, we work hand-in-hand with leaders across the company to support disciplined execution of our strategic business objectives. Our Strategic Finance team provides financial insights through business partnering, forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis.
As an Associate on the Strategic Finance team, you will support key financial planning and analysis activities for our Platform Engineering organization. This role is highly analytical and modeling-intensive. You will work with Finance and cross-functional partners to translate business questions into structured financial analyses and scalable models that support planning and decision-making.
We are looking for someone with exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills—someone who can take a business problem, identify the key inputs and assumptions, determine the appropriate outputs, and build a robust and scalable financial model from the ground up.
What You'll Do- Build Scalable Financial Models: Design and build financial models from scratch, identifying the appropriate inputs, assumptions, drivers, calculations, and outputs needed to answer business questions.
- Translate Problems into Analytical Frameworks: Take complex or ambiguous business questions and structure them into clear, quantitative analyses.
- Forecasting & Planning: Build and maintain driver-based forecasting and planning models, including scenario and sensitivity analyses.
- Financial Analysis: Analyze financial and operational data to understand key cost drivers, trends, variances, and trade-offs.
- Improve Existing Models: Evaluate and enhance existing financial models to improve accuracy, scalability, automation, and ease of use.
- Reporting & Insights: Translate model outputs and financial analyses into clear insights for Finance and business stakeholders.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with Finance, Accounting, and business partners to source and validate model inputs, understand actuals, and ensure consistency of financial data.
- BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or another quantitative field.
- 2 years of relevant experience in FP&A, investment banking, consulting, corporate finance, or another highly analytical role.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exceptional Excel and/or Google Sheets skills, with demonstrated experience building complex financial models from scratch.
- Strong understanding of financial modeling principles, including driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivities, and model architecture.
- Ability to independently structure an analytical problem by identifying the required inputs, assumptions, calculations, and outputs.
- Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to build models that are accurate, dynamic, scalable, and easy for others to understand and maintain.
- Ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear financial insights and communicate them effectively.
Responsibilities
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $106,000 per year - USD $118,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
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Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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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