At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
Strategic Finance Team is integral to driving executive decision-making at Lyft. The team is embedded within the business to partner closely with various leaders and ensure we maximize the impact of our capital investment . Lyft’s Strategic Finance team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Rideshare Product finance team.
The Strategic Finance - Rideshare products team supports all things related to building and launching products, and serving rides through the Lyft platform. The ideal candidate should have solid analytical, communication, and time management skills, as well as being team-oriented and employing a strong work ethic. This role will work cross-functionally across the broader Finance org and the business to develop business cases, build and manage forecasts, and drive accountability through visibility of financial performance. It is a unique opportunity to make a real impact at one of the most exciting companies in the tech world.
Responsibilities:
- Directly support product initiatives and related cross functional stakeholders by providing world-class financial modeling, analysis, and reporting
- Create Product-level P&Ls to provide insight into financial performance and business impact
- Prepare executive-level financial reviews, highlighting key trends
- Analyze product initiatives to drive strategic business decisions and hold the stakeholder accountable
- Collaborate across Product, Data Science, FP&A, and Business Operations to understand the performance and provide insights presented to executive leadership
- Own reporting of key financial data used for operational decision-making
- Improve financial processes and work with the System team to implement improvements to support growth at scale
- Assume ownership and utilize problem solving skills for ad-hoc projects
Experience:
- BA/BS with 4+ years of experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Strategy Consulting, or Strategic Finance in a tech company
- Track record of all-in ownership and delivering impact
- Demonstrated experience in developing complex financial models; excellent quantitative analysis and forecasting skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment
- Comfort with ambiguity and proven ability to make progress/drive insights with incomplete information
- Prior experience working with multiple business stakeholders with varying goals and interests
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence effectively across various departments and levels
- Detail oriented and highly organized self-starter, ability to track overlapping tasks and assignments, while managing frequent priority changes
- Desire to dive right in and get your hands dirty
- Proficiency in SQL with 2+ years of experience working with large data sets
- Extremely detail oriented and highly organized
Benefits:
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan to help save for your future
- In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
- Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
- Subsidized commuter benefits
Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sex