Manager, Finance & Strategy

About the Team

The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for people who can use strategy to identify areas of opportunity, and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution.

About the Role

We are looking for someone who will help guide our strategy in Canada. You will be a strategic advisor to important partners across DoorDash to ensure we are making the most efficient investment and capital allocation decisions while improving the experience for all of our marketplace participants. You will help lead financial reporting, forecasting, and planning, and will guide financial insights and direction for all of our operational decisions and strategies.

You will report to the Director, Finance & Strategy. We expect this role to be hybrid at our office in Toronto with some time in-office and some time remote.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Conduct weekly reporting of financial performance of DoorDash’s Canadian New Verticals (Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol) businesses, forecast key financial metrics based on quantitative analysis of historical data.
• Support quarterly financial planning for DoorDash’s Canadian business, collaborate with cross functional business partners to identify growth areas and business priorities.
• Deep-dive into complex operational questions and collaborate cross-functionally outside Finance (Operations, Product, Marketing, Legal) as well as within Finance (Accounting, Analytics, BI) to uncover the most optimal data-driven business decisions and investments.
• Identify key opportunities & risks to the business, quantify and evaluate the impacts, propose a solution and investment case, and ensure efficient execution.
• Leverage and apply knowledge of SQL, finance, analytics, and technology to manage financial reporting, forecasting, and quantitative analysis to assist DoorDash in making better business decisions.

We’re excited about you because…

• 6+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or Consulting at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company.
• Experience in project management and managing budgets for main functions within an organization.
• Advanced Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets) and financial modeling skills. Experience building financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size the impacts of opportunities and business cases for pursuing new projects.
• Experience using analytics tools. Experience manipulating large datasets, uncover hidden insights in our data, and improve our understanding of our business through this process.
• Familiarity with the following subject matter areas: Data & Decisions, Data Analytics for Marketing and Finance, Business Strategy, Operations Technology Management, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Marketing Analytics, Urban Real Estate Financing and Investing, Managing Disruptive Technologies and Business Models, Market Entry Strategy, Managerial Economics.
• Experience working with (and presenting to) Senior Stakeholders.