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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
Seeking a driven and intellectually curious individual with the right tools and experience to manage cross-functional efforts to optimize, be a key member of Instacart’s M&A efforts, and to manage integration and reporting for acquired businesses. By joining Instacart’s Strategic Finance team at this stage, you will get to help shape the M&A footprint of the company at a key point in our evolution. This role will have a critical impact on our company’s near and long-term success and have the ability to collaborate with multiple business partners.
As a Strategic Finance Manager, you have cross-functional partnership skills, comfort working through complex challenges, thrive in ambiguity and in a dynamic environment. You are highly analytical and a clear, confident communicator.
ABOUT THE JOB
Join a newly formed team and become a part of our team’s expansion and path to maturity
Partner cross-functionally with Corporate Development, Business Operations, Accounting, Data Engineering, and Product leaders to drive and provide visibility into integration, budgeting and forecasting processes
Develop monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range planning; performance and forecast reviews; and ad hoc strategic finance projects and financial modeling that drive business decision-making
Support all financial aspects of M&A including deal model review, valuation/benchmarking, financial due diligence, and post-merger tracking and reporting
Prepare insightful analytics for cross functional teams; identify areas of opportunity to help guide Instacart’s strategic direction on go/no-go decisions or optimizing the acquisition synergies
Become a trusted advisor to business partners, and embedded “CFO in the room”
ABOUT YOU
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business or other related field
6+ years work experience preferred in either investment banking, private equity, equity research, management consulting, or Strategic Finance/FP&A at a high-growth technology company
Experience in data modeling, valuations, and forecasting a full P+L
Ability to effectively build and maintain relationships with multiple stakeholders, manage multiple competing priorities, and drive projects to completion
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and drive cross-functional understanding and cooperation across the business
Demonstrated experience thinking strategically about complex business problems, leading to recommendations and action plans, especially operating in ambiguity
A self-starter with a positive attitude and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
Highly proficient in Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel with the ability to build complex financial models
Basic knowledge of SQL, or willingness to learn
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Accommodations & Accessibility
At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.
