Manager, Finance & Strategy - Merchant Finance

DoorDash USA•Los Angeles, CA

3h•$134,000 - $197,000

About The Position

The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for people who can use strategy to identify areas of opportunity, and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution. We are looking for a Finance Manager who will work with partners across DoorDash to ensure we are making the most efficient investment and capital allocation decisions while improving the experience for our merchants and other marketplace participants. You will help lead financial reporting, forecasting, and planning, and will guide financial insights and direction for all of our operational decisions and strategies.

Requirements

6+ years of experience overall, preferably from Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or Consulting at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company.
Advanced Excel and GSheets financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size the impacts of opportunities and business cases for pursuing new initiatives.
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.

Responsibilities

Conduct weekly reporting of financial performance of DoorDash’s Merchant business, forecast key financial metrics based on quantitative analysis of historical data.
Support quarterly financial planning, collaborate with cross functional business partners to identify growth areas and business priorities.
Deep-dive into complex operational questions and collaborate cross-functionally outside Finance (Sales, Operations, Support) as well as within Finance (Accounting, Analytics, BI) to uncover the most optimal data-driven business decisions and investments.
Identify key opportunities & risks to the business, quantify and evaluate the impacts, propose a solution and investment case, and ensure efficient execution.
Leverage and apply knowledge of SQL, finance, analytics, and technology to manage financial reporting, forecasting, and quantitative analysis to assist DoorDash in making better business decisions.