[Hiring] Senior Financial Insights Analyst @Instacart

Role Description

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.

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 Slides.
• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• 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.
• Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role.
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.