Associate, Strategic Finance - Merchant Finance

In Finance, we work hand-in-hand with leaders across the company to ensure smooth, disciplined execution of strategic business objectives. Our Strategic Finance team provides comprehensive financial insight into the business through regional and functional business partnering, forecasting and budgets, and pricing and incentives.

About the Role

As part of the Merchant Finance team, you will help scale the merchant organization efficiently through financial reporting, analytics, and sales planning capabilities.

You will leverage our operational and financial data to drive insightful and relevant analysis that will empower decision makers across our business and functions. Your scope will include, but will not be limited to 1) Partnering with the sales and strategy teams to maximize return on investments (ROI) and ensure efficient allocation of resources; 2) Identifying and and reporting out profitability metrics to influence strategic decisions across sales leadership; 3) Tracking, monitoring and actioning on merchant economics to influence future and renegotiated deals.

What You'll Do

• Financial & Operational Planning: Partner with company leaders to develop financial forecasts and operational goals
• Partner with the business: To apply business judgment and financial insights to assist with decision-making related to new initiatives, products, and business opportunities
• Sophisticated financial modeling: Break complex business problems down into components, and build models from scratch as well as improve existing models
• Strategic Thinking & Execution Excellence: Partner with your team to execute projects and operationalize our insights
• Work closely with accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals
• Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets

Basic Qualifications

• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, MIS or other relevant subject
• 2 years of proven experience
• Experience with Excel/Google Sheets
• Prior financial and/or analytical experience including FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Outstanding analytical skills - standard methodologies are second nature, and your models are efficient, scalable, and intuitive
• Excellent communication and people skills - numbers are key, but a business is built with people
• Self-starter - you will take initiative, be dedicated, set and drive toward goals
• Ability to prioritize - we are consistently working on multiple projects at any given time, so we are looking for someone who is comfortable working in an ambiguous environment and has the ability to optimally multitask
• Standout colleague - this is a highly collaborative and encouraging team environment
• Attention to detail and ability to execute in a fast-paced environment
• Basic knowledge of GAAP
Experience with enterprise-level financial planning systems, SQL, and/or statistical software package

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$106,000 per year - USD$118,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$106,000 per year - USD$118,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.