In Finance, we work hand-in-hand with leaders across the company to ensure smooth, disciplined execution of strategic business objectives. Our Strategic Finance team provides comprehensive financial insight into the business through regional and functional business partnering, forecasting and budgets, and pricing and incentives.
About the Role
As a Strategic Finance Associate on Uber Eats, you'll serve as the go-to finance and strategy consultant for the operations leaders you support. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the competitive landscape of your markets-analyzing which cities are growing, understanding how the category is evolving, and determining what this means for our market share, profit, and growth opportunities. You'll have the chance to work across all sides of our 3-sided marketplace, from developing pricing and incentive strategies that expand our eater base to structuring merchant contracts that enhance our merchant portfolio.
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This role goes beyond technical skills. You'll own and develop relationships with your business partners, becoming a trusted advisor and presenting your insights directly to senior stakeholders-earning your place at the decision-making table. This will allow you to expand your qualitative skillset, working closely with talented business operators, and gaining visibility in a dynamic environment where you'll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact.
Working in this role allows you to take an entrepreneurial approach within a global brand. You'll have the autonomy to identify new business opportunities, test innovative ideas, and drive projects from inception to execution, with a tangible impact on the business's performance and trajectory. If you're looking for a role where you can directly influence strategic decisions and see the outcomes of your work, this is the perfect opportunity.
What You'll Do
- Financial & Operational Planning: Partner with company leaders to develop financial forecasts and operational goals
- Partner with the business: To apply business judgment and financial insights to assist with decision-making related to new initiatives, products, and business opportunities
- Sophisticated financial modeling: Break complex business problems down into components, and build models from scratch as well as improve existing models
- Strategic Thinking & Execution Excellence: Partner with your team to execute projects and operationalize our insights
- Work closely with accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals
- Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets
Basic Qualifications
- BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, MIS or other relevant subject
- 2+ years of proven experience
- Experience with Excel/Google Sheets
- Prior financial and/or analytical experience including FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or operations
Preferred Qualifications
- Outstanding analytical skills - standard methodologies are second nature, and your models are efficient, scalable, and intuitive
- Excellent communication and people skills - numbers are key, but a business is built with people
- Self-starter - you will take initiative, be dedicated, set and drive toward goals
- Ability to prioritize - we are consistently working on multiple projects at any given time, so we are looking for someone who is comfortable working in an ambiguous environment and has the ability to optimally multitask
- Standout colleague - this is a highly collaborative and encouraging team environment
- Attention to detail and ability to execute in a fast-paced environment
- Basic knowledge of GAAP
- Experience with enterprise-level financial planning systems, SQL, and/or statistical software package
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$101,000 per year - USD$112,500 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.