Strategic Finance Director - Fulfillment & Commerce
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
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OVERVIEW
Seeking a proven Strategic Finance leader to lead cross-functional efforts to optimize and manage Instacart’s Fulfillment and Commerce operations. Strategic Finance Director's joining Instacart’s Strategic Finance team at this stage will get to help shape the investment strategy of the company at a key point in our evolution. This role will have a critical impact on our company’s near and long-term success.
As a Strategic Finance Director, you have cross-functional partnership skills, comfort working through complex challenges, and the ability to consider the big picture to drive strategic and investment recommendations. You are a manager, a mentor, and a doer, providing financial leadership and analytical support to business partners and other members of the Strategic Finance team in a clear and confident manner.
ABOUT THE JOB
- As a founding team member for a critical and strategic function at Instacart, you will have a unique opportunity to take on a leadership role in building and growing our team on our path to maturity
- Partner cross-functionally with leaders across the organization to drive strategic decision making and initiative prioritization
- Develop monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range planning; performance, budget, and forecast reviews; and other strategic finance deliverables
- Prepare insightful analytics for cross functional leadership teams; identify areas of opportunity to help guide Instacart’s strategic direction
- Become a trusted advisor to senior executives, and embedded “CFO in the room”
- Complete ad-hoc business projects and financial modeling analysis that drive decision-making
ABOUT YOU
- 9+years work experience in a relevant field with demonstrated financial acumen and a track record of leveraging data to uncover and drive business impact
- Experience in investment banking, financial due diligence / transaction services, equity research, private equity, management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, strategy & operations, Strategic Finance or a similar field at a high-growth technology company preferred
- Experience building a function from ‘zero to one’ valued, particularly in the context of transitioning from a private to public market company
- Perspective required, and on-demand fulfillment and / or e-commerce experience preferred
- Demonstrated experience thinking strategically about complex business problems, uncovering data-driven insights and creating actionable recommendations
- Ability to effectively build and maintain relationships with multiple stakeholders, manage multiple competing priorities, and drive projects to completion in an ambiguous environment
- Highly proficient in Excel / Sheets with a demonstrated ability to build complex financial analyses and models
- Experience clearly communicating complex financial data to stakeholders across the organization and across all levels, to drive optimal decision making
- Experience working with Accounting and an understanding of GAAP and corporate finance principles
- Intermediate to advanced SQL knowledge preferred – leverage datasets to uncover actionable insights and improve our business performanceA self-starter with a positive attitude and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
Accommodations & Accessibility
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