
Financial Analyst II – Strategic Finance
Instacart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $108,000 - $137,000 per year
About the role
- Partner cross-functionally to design and maintain driver-based financial models that power forecasting, strategic decision making, and initiative prioritization for the Fulfillment and P&GA/Legal organizations.
- Own short- and long-range P&L planning for Fulfillment line items; build scenarios and quantify trade-offs to guide investment decisions; support policy sizing.
- Conduct ad hoc financial modeling and KPI-based analyses; self-serve data using SQL; build dashboards that translate operational trends into financial impact.
- Lead monthly and quarterly performance and forecast reviews; synthesize insights for leadership; support materials for board and investor relations presentations.
- Improve forecast accuracy and speed through scalable reporting, variance analyses, and automation; proactively identify risks and opportunities that move key results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of experience in a relevant field (e.g., Strategic Finance, FP&A, consulting, or investment banking) with a track record of leveraging data for business impact.
- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets financial modeling skills, including scenario/sensitivity analysis and KPI-driven forecasting.
- Proficiency in SQL for self-serve analytics (e.g., complex joins, window functions, aggregations).
- Experience with data visualization and dashboarding (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar) to communicate insights to stakeholders.
- Strong curiosity and willingness to implement AI tools to improve efficiency.
- Experience in consulting, investment banking, or Strategic Finance at a high-growth technology company (preferred).
- Background with marketplace or gig economy businesses and/or exposure to payments, fraud, and order quality domains (preferred).
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
- paid time off
- flexible work arrangements
- new hire equity grant
- annual refresh grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingP&L planningKPI analysisscenario analysissensitivity analysisSQLdata visualizationdashboardingExcelGoogle Sheets
Soft Skills
curiositywillingness to implement AI toolscommunicationsynthesis of insightscross-functional collaboration