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.
We are looking for a Finance Manager to support our Global Growth & Strategic Planning team. This role will be located in our Toronto office. The ideal candidate will bring natural curiosity, financial rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset to the team driving financial analysis in support of strategic decision making at Lyft. This finance partner will have the opportunity to work in a team that will support, inform and influence decisions that can have a real impact on the P&L and can truly help shape Lyft’s future.
Responsibilities- Long-range plan: Build and own a sophisticated, multi-year, full company model that quantifies Lyft's financial potential, and serve as the connective tissue between corporate strategy and LOB P&L owners. Bridge the tops-down model to the bottoms-up plans that each business unit develops. Surface the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs.
- Annual plan: Translate the Long-Range Plan into Annual Plan targets by line of business, construct a defensible long-range plan to annual plan bridge, and assist in creating durable line of business accountability against external financial commitments.
- Competitive intelligence: Produce strategic intelligence briefs following competitor earnings or other announcements. Reverse-engineering metrics to produce shadow P&Ls while integrating sell-side investment research. Creating forward-looking financial metrics and illuminating actionable insights for the leadership team.
- Ad hoc analysis: Lead financial analysis for ad-hoc strategic projects and executive requests, often under tight timelines and with incomplete information. Prepare executive-ready presentations that distill sophisticated financial analysis into clear recommendations for the leadership team
- 5+ years in investment banking, management consulting, strategic finance, or corporate finance, with demonstrated financial modeling excellence
- Strong business acumen with ability to connect financial metrics to underlying business drivers and competitive dynamics
- Experience building financial models from scratch, P&Ls, cash flow projections, scenario analyses, sensitivity tables
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: structuring loosely-defined problems, making defensible assumptions, and driving to decisions with imperfect information
- Excellent communication skills with ability to tailor messaging for different audiences, from technical finance teams to executive leadership
- Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative field
- Preferred
- 2+ years in equity research, consulting, investment banking, or private equity with experience building and maintaining complex financial models.
- MBA or CFA designation
- Deep familiarity with rideshare, mobility, or marketplace business models
- Established framework for competitive intelligence, tracking competitor disclosures, reverse-engineering metrics, synthesizing market trends
- Experience supporting long-range planning processes at high-growth companies
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan with company match 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 and Lyft ride credits
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, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.
Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $145,000 - CAD $181,250, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.
This job fills an existing vacancy.
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Healthcare Strength — Corporate materials describe comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with added access to One Medical and mental-health support, indicating a solid core health offering. This breadth positions health benefits as a relative strength for full-time employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Company information highlights paid parental leave for new parents, with flexibility in how time can be taken. This signals strong family support within the corporate package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. salaried employees have unlimited paid time off alongside company holidays, and hourly roles receive structured PTO and sick time. These policies point to ample time-off availability compared with many roles.
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Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.
