Instacart

Financial Analyst II – Strategic Finance

Instacart

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $108,000 - $137,000 per year

Tech Stack

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