Manager, Strategic Finance

Lyft • Toronto, ON

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
We are looking for a Finance Manager to support our Global Growth & Strategic Planning team. This role will be located in our Toronto office. The ideal candidate will bring natural curiosity, financial rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset to the team driving financial analysis in support of strategic decision making at Lyft. This finance partner will have the opportunity to work in a team that will support, inform and influence decisions that can have a real impact on the P&L and can truly help shape Lyft’s future.

Requirements

• 5+ years in investment banking, management consulting, strategic finance, or corporate finance, with demonstrated financial modeling excellence
• Strong business acumen with ability to connect financial metrics to underlying business drivers and competitive dynamics
• Experience building financial models from scratch, P&Ls, cash flow projections, scenario analyses, sensitivity tables
• Comfort operating in ambiguity: structuring loosely-defined problems, making defensible assumptions, and driving to decisions with imperfect information
• Excellent communication skills with ability to tailor messaging for different audiences, from technical finance teams to executive leadership
• Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative field

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years in equity research, consulting, investment banking, or private equity with experience building and maintaining complex financial models.
• MBA or CFA designation
• Deep familiarity with rideshare, mobility, or marketplace business models
• Established framework for competitive intelligence, tracking competitor disclosures, reverse-engineering metrics, synthesizing market trends
• Experience supporting long-range planning processes at high-growth companies

Responsibilities

• Long-range plan: Build and own a sophisticated, multi-year, full company model that quantifies Lyft's financial potential, and serve as the connective tissue between corporate strategy and LOB P&L owners. Bridge the tops-down model to the bottoms-up plans that each business unit develops. Surface the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs.
• Annual plan: Translate the Long-Range Plan into Annual Plan targets by line of business, construct a defensible long-range plan to annual plan bridge, and assist in creating durable line of business accountability against external financial commitments.
• Competitive intelligence: Produce strategic intelligence briefs following competitor earnings or other announcements. Reverse-engineering metrics to produce shadow P&Ls while integrating sell-side investment research. Creating forward-looking financial metrics and illuminating actionable insights for the leadership team.
• Ad hoc analysis: Lead financial analysis for ad-hoc strategic projects and executive requests, often under tight timelines and with incomplete information. Prepare executive-ready presentations that distill sophisticated financial analysis into clear recommendations for the leadership team

Benefits

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager