Senior Associate, Finance & Strategy - Cost & Quality Finance (Canada)

DoorDash Canada•Toronto, ON

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Finance & Strategy team at DoorDash is responsible for accelerating business growth by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. They partner with various teams across the company to enhance the profitability, scalability, and defensibility of the business model. This team seeks individuals who can delve into all aspects of their marketplace to drive cost savings through critical thinking, analysis, and AI tools. This Senior Associate role is a hybrid position, requiring some time in the Toronto office and some time remote, and reports to a Manager within the Finance & Strategy organization based in NYC. The Senior Associate will collaborate with partners across DoorDash to ensure efficient, data-driven decisions, specifically working with business teams to improve order quality, reduce costs, and support the long-term health of the platform.

Requirements

4+ 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 & 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
Comfortable with and/or willingness to learn use cases for AI within financial modeling and analysis

Responsibilities

Conduct weekly reporting of financial performance for DoorDash's quality cost areas (cancellations, credits and refunds redeliveries), forecast key financial metrics based on quantitative analysis of historical data, and partner with cross-functional teams to investigate variances and identify trends
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 (Operations, Product, Fraud) 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