Senior Financial Insights Analyst

Instacart

1d • $127,000 - $160,500 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Financial Insights Analyst sits within Instacart’s Finance organization and works to identify and close areas of P&L leakage through financial and transactional data analysis. The role supports retailer invoicing challenges and applies expertise in Instacart’s financial ecosystem to improve financial outcomes and build trust with retailer partners.

This is a highly visible, high-impact position combining financial analysis with AI and automation. The analyst connects complex datasets from multiple systems, develops alerting capabilities, diagnoses invoice challenges, works with retailer partners to resolve issues, and turns findings into clear, compelling narratives for internal and external stakeholders. The role is remote under Instacart’s Flex First approach, which allows employees to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, with regular in-person events.

For US-based candidates, the listed base salary ranges depend on permanent work location: $152,000–$160,500 in CA, NY, CT, and NJ; $146,000–$154,000 in WA; $140,000–$147,500 in OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, and HI; and $127,000–$134,000 in all other states. The role is also eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants. Compensation may vary based on factors including experience and skills.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Management Consulting supporting commercial deals or growth initiatives in technology, e-commerce, marketplaces, logistics, or retail.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong analytical and technical skills, including an understanding of data and how to structure it efficiently to find answers.
• Ability to craft compelling narratives and identify the most impactful insights for answering key questions.
• Ability to combine insights into an easy-to-understand, visually appealing story that helps convince retailers to take action.
• Ability to connect large datasets from multiple systems and establish real-time alerting capabilities.
• Experience with PowerPoint or Google Slides.
• Experience writing advanced SQL queries.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, quickly deconstruct problems, identify where deeper analysis is likely to yield results, and develop efficient, high-quality approaches to solving them.

Nice To Haves

• At least 2 years of experience applying AI solutions to a business vertical such as e-commerce, FinTech, or two- or three-sided marketplaces.
• Experience with marketplace or retailer/CPG partnerships, multi-sided platform economics, and/or merchant POS data analysis.
• Hands-on collaboration with Sales or Account Management on deal terms and partner economics.
• Experience in Investment Banking or Consulting.

Responsibilities

• Identify and close P&L leakage through rigorous analysis of financial and transactional data.
• Use AI and automation tools to build and maintain alerting capabilities that surface issues in real time.
• Develop and apply expert-level knowledge of Instacart’s marketplace data, reporting capabilities, and invoicing processes.
• Diagnose invoice challenges and work with retailer partners to resolve them and improve financial outcomes.
• Connect and analyze complex datasets from multiple systems using advanced SQL, Excel or Google Sheets, and Python.
• Synthesize findings into clear, visually compelling narratives and present them to internal and external stakeholders using Google Slides or PowerPoint.
• Maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Prioritize time toward high-impact problems and break down ambiguous challenges into efficient, high-quality approaches.

Benefits

• New-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
• Market-competitive compensation and benefits; specific benefits offerings are referenced but not detailed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

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