Senior Associate, Finance & Strategy - New Verticals FP&A
DoorDash
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Job summary
DoorDash is hiring a Senior Associate to lead day-to-day financial reporting and closing for its New Verticals business in the United States. You will own recurring cycles, develop models, and partner with Accounting, Data Engineering, and business teams to ensure accurate, timely reporting.
This role emphasizes automation, process improvements, and building scalable financial tools. A strong track record in FP&A or corporate finance, plus advanced Excel/Sheets skills, is essential for success
Qualifications
- 4+ years of FP&A or related analytical finance experience with day-to-day ownership of a recurring reporting or close process.
- Proven ability to identify and resolve data or reporting discrepancies independently.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to drive processes or projects to a deadline.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets with complex financial models.
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly close and weekly reporting process for New Verticals, ensuring data is accurate and timely.
- Build and maintain financial models and reporting tools used by the Finance team.
- Collaborate with Accounting, Data Engineering, and business teams to investigate and resolve discrepancies.
- Help modernize recurring reporting processes and explore AI-powered tooling to boost efficiency.
- Play a foundational role on a growing team with opportunities to take on more scope as you gain expertise.
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Job description
New Verticals Finance & Strategy team supports DoorDash's expansion into categories beyond restaurants, which is a critical growth driver for the overall company. We enable our businesses to grow faster while becoming more profitable. We do this by creating quarterly and annual plans, holding our stakeholders accountable to goals, and providing strategic insights on our business to understand past trends and identify the best path forward.
New Verticals Finance & Strategy team supports DoorDash's expansion into categories beyond restaurants, which is a critical growth driver for the overall company. We enable our businesses to grow faster while becoming more profitable. We do this by creating quarterly and annual plans, holding our stakeholders accountable to goals, and providing strategic insights on our business to understand past trends and identify the best path forward.
We're hiring a Senior Associate to help lead the day-to-day financial reporting and closing processes for our New Verticals business. In this role, you'll own recurring reporting cycles, including monthly close, weekly business reviews, and cross-team planning processes, partnering closely with Accounting, Data Engineering, and business teams to keep our financial reporting accurate and on time every cycle. This is a highly detail-oriented, execution-focused role: you'll spend most of your time working directly in the numbers, with real opportunities to build automation and process improvements along the way. You will report into a Manager on our New Verticals Finance team in our Finance & Strategy organization.
- Own the monthly close and weekly reporting process for New Verticals, ensuring our financial data ties out accurately and on time every cycle.
- Build and maintain financial models and reporting tools that the broader Finance team relies on every week.
- Partner with Accounting, Data Engineering , and cross-functional business teams to investigate and resolve reporting discrepancies before they affect business decisions.
- Help modernize recurring reporting processes, including opportunities to use AI-powered tools to increase efficiency.
- Play a foundational role on a growing team, with room to take on more scope as you build expertise in the business.
- You have 4+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, investment banking, or a similar analytical finance role, with day-to-day ownership of a recurring reporting or close process.
- You have a track record of identifying and resolving data or reporting discrepancies independently.
- You have experience partnering with cross-functional teams to drive a process or project to a deadline.
- You have advanced proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets, including building and maintaining complex financial models.
- You have experience writing SQL queries or using AI tools to independently investigate and validate financial or operational data, or equivalent experience with a comparable query language.
The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).
The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$104,700—$154,000 USD
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on "protected categories," we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
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