Strategic Finance Associate, APAC Grocery and Retail

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About the Team The Uber Eats business in APAC keeps growing, providing more earnings opportunities to our merchant and delivery partners while offering convenience to our customers. #GoGetIt embodies the attitude and mindset of Delivery at Uber. We are on a mission to create magical experiences for all our users, merchant partners & delivery partners by building the most reliable, innovative & sustainable marketplace in APAC.

About the Role

In this role you will support Uber's Grocery and Retail business in APAC. You’ll partner closely with Central Operations, Strategy & Planning, and HQ Finance to advise stakeholders, support financial planning, and contribute to high-impact projects that drive growth and efficiency. So, if you want to work on an exciting set of challenges and have the finance skills, experience, and passion - read on and get in touch!

The Impact You'll Have

• Financial planning and analysis: work closely with the finance organisation and with regional business leaders to develop financial forecasts and operational goals, apply business judgment and financial insights to help with decision making;
• Sophisticated financial modelling: build models from scratch, improve existing models, and break sophisticated models down into components that consolidate;
• Think strategically and implement: the models we build aid in decision making and strategy - we operationalise our insights and support everyday execution;
• Monthly close: analyse variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and build/discuss potential action plans with cross-functional customers;
• Operational improvement: help improve our planning processes and ensure finance standard methodologies spread through the organisation. Collaborate with Accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals;
• Business optimisation: support initiatives that optimise our global P&L.
• Innovate: we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical abilities;
• Special projects: new initiatives always come up, you will have the chance to contribute beyond regular modelling.

The Experience You'll Bring

• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or similar;
• 3+ years in Banking, Corporate finance or operational FP&A role at either a high-growth company or a large, well-established organisation;
• Elite Excel/Google Sheet & analytical skills: Standard methodologies are second-nature, your models are efficient, scalable and intuitive;
• Excellent communication and people skills: numbers are key, but a business is built with people;
• Self-starter: take initiative, be dedicated, set and drive toward goals;
• Systems: proven understanding of enterprise-level financial planning systems
• Attention to detail: consistent with swift and high quality execution. We do things quickly, and we need to do them well. Striking that balance can be daring and this should be a strength of yours.

Bonus Points

• Basic knowledge of GAAP
• SQL skills: the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in tackling this role
• CFA or CPA.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.