Strategic Finance Business Partner

UBER; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber Australia is seeking an FP&A professional to scale financial reporting, analytics, and planning across our Mobility, Delivery, and Corporate Finance areas. You will partner with leaders to develop forecasts and strategic initiatives, building robust models and actionable insights.

Excelling candidates will have 4+ years in FP&A, strong Excel/Sheets skills, and GAAP awareness, with experience in SQL or statistics to support real-time business decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
• 4+ years of proven experience in FP&A or related roles.
• Experience with Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Financial & operational planning: forecast and set goals with leaders.
• Partner with the business to inform initiatives and opportunities.
• Build and improve financial models for strategic decisions.
• Translate insights into actionable plans and execution.
• Stay adaptable and learn new technical skills.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Self-starter

Prioritization

Adaptability

Education

BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics

Tools

SQL

Statistical software

Excel/Google Sheets

Job description

As part of the Strategic Finance team, you will help scale the financial reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities and empower decision makers across our different businesses and functions. You will play a key role in all aspects of financial reporting and make significant contributions to high-profile strategic and operational initiatives. Your work and the insights you create will drive real time business decisions and help Uber to continue to grow, scale and become more profitable, while also creating more opportunities for the many thousands of courier, restaurants and drivers that use our platform daily. By applying to this position, your application is automatically submitted to the following Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) areas based on role availability: Mobility, Delivery, Commercial, Technical and Corporate Finance. So if you're ready to dive into a rewarding set of challenges and you've got the proven financial skills, experience, passion, and strong team mentality - read on and get in touch!

What you’ll do

• Financial & Operational Planning: Partner with company 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
• Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets

Basic Qualifications

• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics or other relevant subject
• 4+ years of proven experience
• Experience with Excel/Google Sheets
• Prior financial and/or analytical experience including FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Outstanding analytical skills - standard methodologies are second‑nature, 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