Doordash
Senior Associate, Finance & Strategy
Our mission is to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve.
Finance and accounting
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.
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Why Doordash
We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.
About the role
About the Role We are looking for someone who will help drive our strategy and execution in Australia. You will be the strategic thought partner to key stakeholders across DoorDash to ensure we are making the most efficient investment and capital allocation decisions while consistently improving the experience for all of our marketplace participants. You will lead financial reporting, forecasting, and planning, and will be expected to drive financial insights and direction for all of our operational decisions and strategies.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Own the full P&L and understand all the levers to optimise our approach to balancing growth vs. profitability
- Be the Finance voice at the decision making table
- Deep-dive into complex operational questions and collaborate cross-functionally outside Finance (Operations, Product, Marketing, Legal) as well as within Finance (Accounting, Analytics, BI) to uncover the most optimal data-driven business decisions and investments
- Be the source of truth for weekly financial reporting and forecasting, and quarterly financial planning for the business
- Identify key opportunities & risks to the business, quantify and evaluate the impacts, propose a solution and investment case, and ensure efficient execution
We’re excited about you because…
- 4+ years in Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance or Investment Banking
- Ability to influence cross-functional partners at all levels within an organisation
- Proven success in project management and managing budgets for major functional areas within an organisation
- Advanced Excel & financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size the impacts of opportunities and 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
- Experience with marketplace, logistics or consumer business a plus
What you'll be responsible for
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Development of Finance Strategy
Recommend improvements to optimize and improve financial performance and development of strategic long-term plans
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Operational and Financial Reporting
Analyze financial data to prepare timely reports to support business decisions
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Financial Modeling
Analyze data to create financial models that support planning and projections
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Numerical problem solving
Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems
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Critical thinking
Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight
Meet the team
