Senior Financial Insights Analyst

OpenKrill; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 127 000 - 160 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Equity grant

Annual refresh grants

Remote-friendly policy

Resumo da oferta

Instacart is seeking a Senior Financial Insights Analyst to identify and close P&L leakage through rigorous financial and transactional data analysis. The role combines deep financial expertise with AI and automation to surface issues in real time and drive action with retailer partners.

You will analyze complex datasets, build alerts, and synthesize insights into clear narratives for stakeholders across finance and business teams.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Management Consulting
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or related quantitative field
• Strong analytical and technical skills with data structuring ability
• Ability to craft compelling narratives and insights from data
• Ability to present data-driven stories to drive retailer actions
• Experience connecting large data sets from multiple systems and building real-time alerts
• Experience with PowerPoint/Google Slides
• Experience writing advanced SQL queries
• Ability to decompose ambiguous problems and develop efficient solutions

Responsabilidades

• Identify and close P&L leakage through rigorous data analysis
• Build real-time alerting capabilities using AI and automation tools
• Develop expert understanding of marketplace data, invoicing processes and retailer partnerships
• Connect datasets from multiple systems using SQL, Excel, Python and synthesize findings into clear narratives
• Present findings to internal and external stakeholders via Google Slides or PowerPoint
• Maintain strong, high-impact stakeholder relationships and prioritize high-impact problems

Conhecimentos

Strategic Finance

Data analysis

SQL queries

Narrative storytelling

Excel/Sheets

PowerPoint/Slides

Ambiguity handling

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Accounting/Business

Ferramentas

PowerPoint/Google Slides

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Why this role is on the menu

The Senior Financial Insights Analyst sits at the center of Instacart's Finance organization, with a mandate to identify and close areas of P&L leakage through rigorous financial and transactional data analysis and compelling narratives that drive action.

The team works through invoice challenges with retailers and serves as experts in the broader Instacart financial ecosystem. Invoicing retailers correctly is a key operational responsibility that impacts financial success and builds trust with retailer partners.

This is a highly visible, high-impact role for someone who is relentlessly optimistic, eager to learn, and excited about combining deep financial expertise with AI and automation tools. We are looking for a great team member who helps carry the culture and gets things done in a no-ego way.

What you'll cook up in your first year

• P&L leakage is identified and closed through rigorous analysis of Instacart's financial and transactional data.
• AI and automation tools are used to build and maintain alerting capabilities that surface issues in real time.
• An expert-level understanding of Instacart's marketplace data, reporting capabilities, and invoicing processes is developed and applied. Invoice challenges are diagnosed, retailer partnerships are leveraged to resolve them, and financial outcomes improve as a result.
• Complex datasets from multiple systems are connected and analyzed using advanced SQL, Excel or Google Sheets, and Python. Findings are synthesized into clear, visually compelling narratives and presented to internal and external stakeholders via Google Slides or PowerPoint.
• Strong stakeholder relationships are maintained internally and externally. Time is continuously prioritized toward the highest-impact problems, with ambiguous challenges deconstructed into efficient, high-quality approaches to resolution.

The secret ingredients we're looking for

Must-have pantry staples (Minimum Qualifications)

• 5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Management Consulting supporting commercial deals or growth initiatives in technology, e-commerce, marketplace, logistics, or retail
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Strong analytical and technical skills; a strong understanding of data and how to structure it to get at the answers we need efficiently
• Ability to craft compelling narratives and identify the insights that are most impactful in answering the key questions
• Ability to combine insights into an easy to understand, visually appealing story that helps convince retailers to take action
• Ability to connect large data sets from multiple systems and establish real-time alerting capabilities
• Experience with Powerpoint / Google Sides
• Experience writing advanced SQL queries
• Ability to deal with ambiguity; the ability to quickly deconstruct a problem into its most important components, have a good sense of where digging deeper will likely yield results, and coming up with an efficient and high quality approach to solving the problem

Optional garnishes (Preferred Qualifications)

• 2+ years of experience applying AI solutions to a specific business vertical such as e-commerce, FinTech, or two- or three-sided marketplaces
• Experience with marketplace or retailer/CPG partnerships, multi-sided platform economics, and/or merchant POS data analysis
• Hands-on collaboration with Sales or Account Management on deal terms and partner economics
• Experience in Investment Banking or Consulting

#LI-RemoteInstacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ$152,000-$160,500 USD

WA$146,000-$154,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$140,000-$147,500 USD

All other states$127,000-$134,000 USD