Senior Financial Insights Analyst
About the role
Senior Financial Insights Analyst focused on identifying and closing P&L leakage through rigorous financial and transactional data analysis, with emphasis on invoicing retailers, AI/automation, and storytelling to drive retailer actions.
Responsibilities
- P&L leakage is identified and closed through rigorous analysis of Instacart's financial and transactional data.
- AI and automation tools are used to build and maintain alerting capabilities that surface issues in real time.
- An expert-level understanding of Instacart's marketplace data, reporting capabilities, and invoicing processes is developed and applied. Invoice challenges are diagnosed, retailer partnerships are leveraged to resolve them, and financial outcomes improve as a result.
- Complex datasets from multiple systems are connected and analyzed using advanced SQL, Excel or Google Sheets, and Python. Findings are synthesized into clear, visually compelling narratives and presented to internal and external stakeholders via Google Slides or PowerPoint.
- Strong stakeholder relationships are maintained internally and externally. Time is continuously prioritized toward the highest-impact problems, with ambiguous challenges deconstructed into efficient, high-quality approaches to resolution.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Management Consulting supporting commercial deals or growth initiatives in technology, e-commerce, marketplace, logistics, or retail
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Strong analytical and technical skills; a strong understanding of data and how to structure it to get at the answers we need efficiently
- Ability to craft compelling narratives and identify the insights that are most impactful in answering the key questions
- Ability to combine insights into an easy to understand, visually appealing story that helps convince retailers to take action
- Ability to connect large data sets from multiple systems and establish real-time alerting capabilities
- Experience with Powerpoint / Google Slides
- Experience writing advanced SQL queries
- Ability to deal with ambiguity; the ability to quickly deconstruct a problem into its most important components, have a good sense of where digging deeper will likely yield results, and coming up with an efficient and high quality approach to solving the problem
Skills
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where employees work
- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
- Flex First remote work policy
- Eligibility for benefits offerings as described in company materials
About Instacart
Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup
Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.
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