Senior Finance & Strategy Manager

Deliveroo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

Annual leave allowances

Job summary

A leading food delivery company in Greater London is seeking a Senior Manager to drive business strategy and investment decisions. The role involves collaboration with various teams to enhance profitability while balancing growth. Candidates should have over 8 years in strategic or corporate finance, experience in team management, and advanced financial modeling skills. Join a dynamic team dedicated to innovation and fast-paced growth in the food industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strategic finance experience in a tech startup or established company.
• Significant team management experience; passionate about building teams.
• Experience owning budgets for major functional areas within an organization.
• Ability to influence cross-functional partners at all levels.
• Proven track record of influencing senior leaders on strategic decisions.
• Experience building and reviewing complex financial models.
• Managing forecasts for major departments within the organization.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Basic SQL proficiency or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop new processes.
• Drive strategic decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
• Optimize approach to balancing growth vs. profitability.
• Support initiatives through custom modeling exercises.
• Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs.
• Analyze operational/financial data to uncover trends.
• Own models to balance growth vs. profitability.
• Work with cross-functional partners for new processes.

Skills

Strategic finance

Corporate finance

Investment banking

Team management

Financial modeling

Excel

Google Sheets

SQL

Job description

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About the Team

The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by 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 those who can model the future and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution. On a typical day, you may extract insights from data, build business cases for new products, and work to design and launch pilots. You'll help establish and lead some of the most impactful programs we undertake as a company.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Manager who will play an integral role in building our business strategy and ensure we are making the most efficient investment and capital allocation decisions for our business. This role will partner cross-functionally with teams across the business to support strategic business and financial decisions.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop new processes and investment decision making frameworks
• Drive strategic decision making in a fast paced constantly changing environment
• Work to optimize our approach to balancing growth vs. profitability
• Support key initiatives through custom modeling exercises
• Support special projects to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies
• Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities
• Operate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that is constantly evolving
• Analyze operational/financial data, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities
• Own models and analyses to balance growth vs. profitability
• Work with cross-functional partners to develop new processes and policies

We're excited about you because you'll bring...

• 8+ years of strategic finance, corporate finance, or investment banking experience at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company
• Significant team management experience. Building and developing a team is something you are passionate about
• Have experience owning budgets for major functional areas within an organization, and working with operators on day-to-day execution to hit targets
• Ability to influence cross-functional partners at all levels within an organization
• Have a proven ability to earn the trust of senior leaders, and influence their thinking on key strategic decisions
• Have experience building and reviewing highly complex models, and developing a team that sets the gold standard for financial modeling. You know how to distill complex financial data into digestible outputs and analyses, for use across the organization
• Experience managing forecasts for major departments within an organization
• Advanced Excel, google sheets and financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
• Basic SQL proficiency (or willingness to learn). Able to manipulate large data sets, uncover hidden insights in our data, and meaningfully improve our understanding of our business through this process

Why Deliveroo

Our mission is to be the definitive food company. We are transforming the way the world eats by making food more convenient and accessible. We give people the opportunity to eat what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it.

We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas.

Workplace & Benefits

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country-specific, please ask your recruiter for more information.

Diversity

At Deliveroo, we believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest-growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that some candidates may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments, please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to succeed.