Associate, Finance & Strategy
DoorDash, Inc.
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Posted:
August 28, 2023
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Hybrid
About the position
The job overview for this role is to drive strategic decision making, collaborate with key stakeholders, optimize growth vs. profitability, automate financial planning processes, track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, and support special projects to improve forecasting and reporting tools. The ideal candidate should have experience in strategic finance, cross-functional collaboration, financial modeling, strong communication skills, and basic SQL proficiency. DoorDash is committed to diversity and inclusion, and they provide comprehensive benefits and perks to support employee well-being.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategic decision making in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop new processes and investment decision-making frameworks
- Work to optimize the approach to balancing growth vs. profitability
- Find ways to automate operational aspects of the financial planning & analysis process
- Develop reports to track budget vs. actuals and provide visibility to business partners around areas that are over or under-performing
- Identify and quantify key risks & opportunities in the business
- Support special projects to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies
- Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, uncover trends, and assess current/future business risks and opportunities
Requirements
- 2+ years of strategic finance, corporate finance, or investment banking experience at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company
- Experience working on projects that require cross-functional collaboration
- Advanced Excel & financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to influence cross-functional partners at all levels within an organization
- Basic SQL proficiency (or willingness to learn). Able to manipulate large data sets, uncover hidden insights in our data, and meaningfully improve our understanding of our business through this process
Benefits
- Premium healthcare
- Wellness expense reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- Paid time off
- Several paid holidays
- Opportunities for equity grants