Senior Manager M&A Finance
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.
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OVERVIEW
Seeking a proven strategic finance leader with the right tools and experience to lead cross-functional efforts to optimize, be a key member of Instacart’s Mergers & Acquisitions team, and to play point in integration and reporting. Strategic Finance Senior Managers joining Instacart’s Strategic Finance team at this stage 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. This role will report into the Director of Corporate Finance.
As a Strategic Finance Sr. Manager, you have cross-functional partnership skills, comfort working through complex challenges, and the ability to consider the big picture to drive strategic and investment recommendations. You are highly analytical and a clear, confident communicator.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Founding team member - this new position is part of our team’s expansion and path to maturity
- Partner cross-functionally with Corporate Development, Business Operations, Accounting, and product leaders to drive and provide visibility into integration, leadership in budgeting and forecasting processes, and enable strategic decision making and initiative prioritization
- Develop monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range planning; performance and forecast reviews; and other strategic finance deliverables
- Prepare insightful analytics for cross functional leadership team; identify areas of opportunity to help guide Instacart’s strategic direction on optimizing the acquisition synergies
- Become a trusted advisor to senior executives, and embedded “CFO in the room”
- Complete ad-hoc business projects and financial modeling analysis that drive decision-making
ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business or other related field
- 8-12 years work experience in a relevant field with demonstrated financial acumen and a track record of leveraging data for business impact
- Perspective required, experience preferred with M&A in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
- Experience in investment banking, equity research, private equity, management consulting, FP&A / Strategic Finance at high-growth technology company preferred
- Highly proficient in Google Sheets with strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- 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 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
- A self-starter with a positive attitude and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
Accommodations & Accessibility
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