Manager, Strategic Finance - Ads

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Overview

About the Role

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Manager of Ads to focus on the Go-To-Market strategy of Instacart’s Ads business. This role will provide financial partnership for the commercial segments of Instacart’s ads business, owning critical parts of our revenue forecast and partnering cross-functionally with our ads sales and commercial excellence organizations to drive revenue outcomes.

About the Team

Instacart Ads has products, tools, insights and automation to help brands of all sizes succeed, from the very large to the mighty upstart. Instacart Ads are ads that deliver, putting a brand’s products in front of millions of high-intent consumers who are eager to discover and purchase them.

About the Job

• Partner cross-functionally on forecast models that drive strategic decision making, quota setting, and sales performance for Instacart Ads
• Generate monthly and quarterly forecast reviews, board meeting and investor presentations, and other financial review presentations for leadership teams
• Serve as the direct business partner to the head of brand partnerships
• Conduct ad hoc financial modeling and analysis, such as analyzing performance of pricing and incentive programs
• Contribute to short and long range P&L planning, including seller efficiency performance
• Design and implement financial processes that use internal data and KPI’s to monitor and forecast financial performance of advertising business

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS, Math, Economics, Finance, Business or other related field
• 6-8 years work experience in a relevant field with demonstrated financial acumen and a track record of leveraging data for business impact
• Demonstrated experience thinking strategically about complex business problems, developing frameworks, and making decisions in areas involving judgment and ambiguity
• Highly proficient in advanced modeling in Google Sheets with strong attention to detail
• Highly proficient in communicating complex topics through decks in Google Slides
• Highly analytical and a clear, confident communicator
• A self-starter with a positive attitude and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience in consulting, investment banking, or Strategic Finance at a high-growth technology company preferred
• Work experience in advertising or SaaS preferred but not required
• Intermediate SQL knowledge is preferred