Associate, Finance & Strategy
DoorDash, Inc.
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Posted:
August 7, 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, and strong communication skills. Basic SQL proficiency is also desired.
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
- 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)
Benefits
- Premium healthcare
- Wellness expense reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
- Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees
- 401(k) plan including an employer match
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- Paid time off
- Several paid holidays
- Opportunities for equity grants