Senior Financial Analyst - Instacart Business
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
About the Role -
We are seeking an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance org supporting Instacart Business. Instacart Business is a new way for businesses to shop on Instacart to give them more flexibility to get the last-minute– and often, unexpected– items they need to keep things running. Instacart Business tailors the customer experience specifically for business needs.
In this role, you will leverage data-driven insights to provide strategic guidance, identify new opportunities, and enhance decision-making within the Instacart Business team. Your work will directly impact our growth strategy and contribute to Instacart Business’s long-term vision of accelerating technology adoption across the entire food and beverage supply chain.
About the Team -
The Strategic Finance team is an integral thought partner to Instacart's core functional leaders, providing essential support for strategic, financial, and product decision-making. We serve as a point of connection between teams, facilitating collaboration, idea sharing, and alignment, helping Instacart develop holistic solutions to serve our customers.
About the Job
In this dynamic role, your responsibilities will include:
- Becoming an expert on current and future customers of Instacart Business, gaining a deep understanding of how we drive growth and solve user problems.
- Develop robust analyses around business performance, user behavior, and competitive environment to inform business decisions.
- Partner with and influence Instacart leadership (product, data science, design, sales / commercial teams and c-suite) to develop high-level strategy, formulate business plans, and evaluate resourcing and profitability trade-offs.
- Work on business problems that involve uncertainty, bringing structure, data, and sound judgment to propose a path forward.
- Facilitate strategic planning in collaboration with cross-functional partners, sizing new opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and implementing performance measurement processes.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- You have 4-6+ years of experience in strategy and operations, product analytics, financial analysis, or management consulting with a proven track record of leading successful initiatives.
- You are a strategic thinker that can also dive deep into business problems and convey complex ideas to a wide range of audiences with clarity and structure.
- You are a self-starter with the ability to quickly respond to problems independently and proactively address conflicting stakeholder requirements to achieve creative compromise. You have a proven track record of designing and implementing process improvement projects and improving business metrics in resource-constrained environments.
- You think with data and are proficient with SQL and dashboarding/BI tools.
- You have a basic understanding of statistics and experimentation methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degrees in business and/or a quantitative discipline (e.g. economics, statistics) and background in marketplace or early stage companies are a plus.
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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Instacart is an American delivery company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada accessible via a website and mobile app. The company has partnerships with 1,400 retail banners comprising 80,000 stores.
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