Senior Financial Analyst, Lyft
CA$115-143.8k
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$115-143.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will bring natural curiosity, financial rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset to the team driving financial analysis in support of strategic decision making at Lyft
- 5+ years of experience in financial planning or analytics in a rigorous environment, ideally a high growth technology company with significant software engineering and product headcount
- Demonstrated experience in developing analytical frameworks; excellent quantitative analysis and forecasting skills
- Detail oriented self-starter capable of operating autonomously and driving projects with high performance amidst ambiguity
- Strong communication and presentation skills, can easily present complex financial issues to non-finance executives
- Exceptional interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills, ability to drive operational excellence within a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of financial systems (Anaplan, Tableau, Oracle ERP or similar)
- Strong Google Sheet, Google Doc and Excel skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to support our Autonomous Vehicle (AV) team
- This role will be located in our Toronto office
- This finance partner will have the opportunity to work in a team that will support, inform and influence decisions that can have a real impact on the P&L and can truly help shape Lyft’s future
- Own all aspects of budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning for our emerging AV business unit as a partner to key business leaders
- Lead in-depth financial analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and ROI evaluations to drive decision-making on new and existing products
- Spearhead and manage continuous process optimization across functional departments to scale with company growth
- Instill financial responsibility through education and partnership with cross functional teams and department heads
- Build comprehensive and dynamic models to drive insightful analytics and provide recommendations and key findings to leadership teams
- Create, distribute, and summarize clear, concise KPI reporting
- Support month end close processes including the analysis and reporting of financial results; ensuring key issues, risks, and business drivers are understood and highlighted
- Partner with broader FP&A team and other Finance colleagues on cross-functional initiatives, supporting with financial models and ad-hoc analysis
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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