Manager - Strategic Finance

Uber Freight•Chicago, IL

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our Strategic Finance team at Uber Freight. Uber Freight is a fast growing business where you would be responsible for holistic financial support - including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis for a key piece of our business - partnering with the leaders of these areas in making strategic decisions that accelerate growth and drive higher margins.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics
3-5 years in FP&A/StratFin at a large enterprise or startup
Elite Excel or Google Sheets skills
Working knowledge of enterprise-level financial planning systems
Strong working knowledge of GAAP
Excellent communication and people skills
Strong attention to detail

Nice To Haves

Experience in the transportation industry
MBA, CFA or CPA
SQL/PowerBI/Tableau skills

Responsibilities

Think strategically and then execute - the models we build aid in decision making and strategy (e.g. using customer profitability to influence capital allocation and strategy shifts) - we operationalize our insights
Lead a team - supervise a group of financial analysts engaged in monthly forecasting and close, as well as annual budget process for our your assigned area of the business
Partner across the business - build relationships with senior commercial, operations, and support leaders around the company and collaborate with them to execute our strategy
Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and create action
Sophisticated financial modeling - build models from scratch, improve existing models, break complex models down into components that consolidate - you can do it all
Help us scale / transition from startup to enterprise - Part of this is maturing our planning processes, part is ensuring finance best practices spread through the organization
Innovate - we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets