Associate, Strategic Finance - Ads

​​In Finance, we work hand-in-hand with leaders across the company to ensure smooth, disciplined execution of strategic business objectives. Our Strategic Finance team provides comprehensive financial insight into the business through regional and functional business partnering, forecasting and budgets, and pricing and incentives.

About the Role

As part of the Strategic Finance (Commercial) team, you will help scale the financial reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities and empower decision-makers across our different businesses and functions. This role is newly introduced within the Commercial Finance, Advertising team to bolster support for the rapidly expanding advertising business spanning Delivery and Mobility. The position will primarily center on planning, forecasting, financial modeling, data analytics and conducting ad hoc analyses aimed at enhancing Uber’s profitability and fostering growth through the ads business.

What You'll Do

• Financial & Operational Planning: Partner with Ads 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 Regional Finance leads and accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals and forecasts.
• Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of two years (2) years of experience.
• Experience with Excel/Google Sheets.
• Prior financial and/or analytical experience including FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or operations.
• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, MIS or other relevant subjects.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$101,000 per year - USD$112,500 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

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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.