Strategic Finance Associate (Community Operations)

About The RoleAs part of the Strategic Finance team, you will help scale the financial reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities and empower decision-makers across our different businesses and functions. You will play a key role in all aspects of financial reporting and make significant contributions to high-profile strategic and operational initiatives. Your work and the insights you create will drive real-time business decisions and help Uber continue to grow, scale, and become more profitable, while also creating more opportunities for the many thousands of couriers, restaurants, and drivers that use our platform daily.What You'll Do Financial & Operational Planning: Partner with company leaders to develop financial forecasts and operational goals Partner with the business: To apply business judgment and financial insights to assist with decision-making related to new initiatives, products, and business opportunities Sophisticated financial modeling: Break complex business problems down into components, and build models from scratch as well as improve existing models Strategic Thinking & Execution Excellence: Partner with your team to execute projects and operationalize our insights Work closely with accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets Basic Qualifications BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, MIS or other relevant subject 2+ years of proven experience in FP&A Experience with Excel/Google Sheets Prior financial and/or analytical experience including FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or operations Outstanding analytical skills - standard methodologies are second nature, and your models are efficient, scalable, and intuitive Excellent communication and people skills - numbers are key, but a business is built with people Preferred Qualifications Self-starter - you will take initiative, be dedicated, set and drive toward goals Ability to prioritize - we are consistently working on multiple projects at any given time, so we are looking for someone who is comfortable working in an ambiguous environment and has the ability to optimally multitask Standout colleague - this is a highly collaborative and encouraging team environment Attention to detail and ability to execute in a fast-paced environment Basic knowledge of GAAP Experience with enterprise-level financial planning systems, SQL, and/or statistical software package