Uber

Manager - Strategic Finance

Uber$100K — $144K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
  • 3-5 years in FP&A/Strategic Finance at a large enterprise or startup
  • Experience in the transportation industry is a plus
  • Strong skills in Excel/Google Sheets
  • Familiarity with enterprise-level financial planning systems
  • Knowledge of GAAP accounting principles
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proficiency in SQL, PowerBI, or Tableau

Responsibilities

  • Strategize and execute financial models that inform decision-making
  • Lead a team of financial analysts in forecasting and budgeting
  • Build relationships with senior leaders to collaborate on strategy execution
  • Analyze variances between actuals, forecasts, and plans to drive action
  • Construct sophisticated financial models from the ground up
  • Facilitate the transition from a startup to an established enterprise
  • Innovate beyond traditional forecasting methods

Benefits

  • Company-sponsored health plan
  • Dental and vision benefits
  • 401k match
  • Financial and mental wellness benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Performance or sales incentive bonus program
  • Participation in equity awards and other role-specific compensation options
Full Job Description
Schedule: Full Time

Job Type: Hybrid

Salary Type: Salary

Req #: 2754

About the RoleWe are looking for a Finance Manager to join our Strategic Finance team at Uber Freight. Uber Freight is a fast growing business where you would be responsible for holistic financial support - including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis for a key piece of our business - partnering with the leaders of these areas in making strategic decisions that accelerate growth and drive higher margins.

What the Candidate Will Do
  • Think strategically and then execute - the models we build aid in decision making and strategy (e.g. using customer profitability to influence capital allocation and strategy shifts) - we operationalize our insights
  • Lead a team - supervise a group of financial analysts engaged in monthly forecasting and close, as well as annual budget process for our your assigned area of the business
  • Partner across the business - build relationships with senior commercial, operations, and support leaders around the company and collaborate with them to execute our strategy
  • Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and create action
  • Sophisticated financial modeling - build models from scratch, improve existing models, break complex models down into components that consolidate - you can do it all
  • Help us scale / transition from startup to enterprise - Part of this is maturing our planning processes, part is ensuring finance best practices spread through the organization
  • Innovate - we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics
  • 3-5 years in FP&A/StratFin at a large enterprise or startup

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in the transportation industry
  • Elite Excel or Google Sheets skills
  • Working knowledge of enterprise-level financial planning systems
  • Strong working knowledge of GAAP
  • Excellent communication and people skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • MBA, CFA or CPA
  • SQL/PowerBI/Tableau skills

Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees

Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.

Illinois: The salary range for this role is $100,750 to $144,950 a year

About Uber

Uber Entertainment, Inc. is a privately held video game development company headquartered in beautiful downtown Kirkland, WA. Uber is currently developing Planetary Annihilation, a next generation real time strategy game of epic proportions.

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-$6.7 billion
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2009
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