Associate, Strategic Finance

Uber Uber · Consumer · Hong Kong · Finance & Accounting

This role is in Strategic Finance, focusing on financial planning and analysis, financial modeling, and driving strategic insights for business leaders. It involves P&L ownership, forecasting, reporting, and participating in regional strategic projects and ROI processes for capital allocation. The role requires strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with a preference for experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or related fields.

What you'd actually do

  1. Financial planning and analysis: work closely with the broader finance organization and with regional business leaders to develop financial forecasts and operational goals, apply business judgement and financial insights to help with strategy and decision making
  2. Financial modeling: build models from scratch, improve existing models, and capture complex business reality/dynamics and interactions into comprehensive models and leverage those to assess trade-offs, propose solutions and drive better decision making
  3. Think strategically and execute: the models we build aid in decision making and strategy - we operationalize our insights and support daily execution
  4. Monthly close: report and analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and create/discuss potential action plans with cross-functional stakeholders
  5. Process improvement: help improve our planning processes and ensure finance best practices spread through the organization. Work with Accounting, Tax, FinOps and other finance verticals to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals

Skills

Required

  • BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics
  • 3+ years of proven experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Venture Capital or Management Consulting with experience of Financial modeling
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Elite Excel/Google Sheet skills
  • Excellent communication and people skills
  • Self-starter
  • Attention to detail and ability to execute in a fast-paced environment
  • Standout colleague

Nice to have

  • Working knowledge of US GAAP
  • working knowledge of enterprise-level financial planning systems
  • SQL skills
  • CFA or CPA

What the JD emphasized

  • high degree of P&L ownership
  • driving strategic analysis and insights
  • building the right financial discipline
  • establish ROI processes for capital allocation
  • Financial modeling: build models from scratch
  • Elite Excel/Google Sheet skills