Finance Business Partner - Food, Ads, Groceries (Senior Manager)

Finance Business Partner - Food, Ads, Groceries (Senior Manager)

We are currently seeking a Finance Business Partner for our On-Demand Services (ODS) vertical. In this role, you will be assigned to partner with one of our core products (Food, Advertising, and Groceries), providing advice across a broad range of finance activities including budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.

What You Will Do

Business Partnering & Analytics

• Business Partnering - be a thought partner to our product leadership, helping to translate business metrics/requirements into clear financial impact/results and vice-versa. Apply business judgment and financial insights to assist Business Units (BU) with decision making related to new initiatives, products, and business opportunities.
• Providing finance leadership with insights to product performance and trends based on financial/business data and on-the-ground interactions with key product stakeholders.
• Weekly and monthly performance reporting: report and analyze trends and variances between actuals, forecast, and plan. Work with stakeholders to design financial dashboards for relevant KPIs.
• Data Analytics - work with data sets (large or small) to extract insights and make recommendations to stakeholders.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Provide support to your assigned Business Unit for monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range planning processes (for eg: rolling forecast and annual budgets).
• Responsible for regular projections/forecasting of Business Unit performance, providing CFO and Business Unit leadership with an independent view on Business Unit performance.
• Ad hoc analysis: run analysis to help uncover growth opportunities, cost efficiencies, or ways to further mitigate risks.
• Responsible to lead and mentor a small team of 1-2 analysts.

What You Will Need

• Degree-level qualification in Accounting/ Business / Quantitative fields of study.
• 8+ years experience in Finance, preferably in FP&A business partnering role for 4-5 years, with prior people management experience.
• Able to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders across various levels of seniority, both written and verbal.
• Able to work independently with strong attention to detail.
• Able to translate business requirements into financial view and vice versa.
• Able to think critically and in a structured manner.
• Proficient in financial modeling, to be able to take a business requirement and build a financial model around it and articulate the business model to stakeholders.
• Proficient in SQL and basic knowledge of data modeling, experience with Google BigQuery is a big plus but not required.

About The Team

Being part of the ODS FP&A team, you will be responsible for regular business reporting, including the preparation of weekly / monthly performance reviews and forecasting. The team is very task-oriented, with the focus on ensuring things get done and problems get solved. There will also be opportunities to work with various teams and learn from the organization.