Job description
- 12 month fixed term contract
- Full-time
- Australia Remote or Sydney/Melbourne Hybrid
At Uber Carshare, we’re on a mission to free the world from the ‘one person, one car’ mentality. Our platform and technology make it easy to turn any car into a shared car, empowering people to save money, reduce waste, and fight climate change. Our community has more than 10,000 cars being shared and over 1.1 million trips taken so far. Together with Uber’s other mobility options, Uber Carshare helps to provide a complete alternative to car ownership. We have ultra-bold ambitions and growth plans for 2024 and beyond.
About the role
We’re looking for a Finance Manager that has a focus on FP&A and business partnering.
The role will be reporting to our global Financial Controller with a dotted line to our global Strategic Finance leaders. You will be an integral member of the finance team and hold responsibility for partnering with Operations to deliver reporting, insights and data analysis that translates operational trends to financial results, and assisting with financial planning. You will be required to identify process improvements, change implications and executions as well as supporting ad-hoc finance projects.
In this role, you’ll:
BUSINESS OPERATIONS:
- Support our long range and annual planning processes
- Develop a deep understanding of our financial model and assist others in understanding the inputs and outputs
- Liaise with Operations on their monthly forecasting, provide clarity to Operation’s P&Ls to deliver strategic insights to drive performance
- Provide commentary to variances and partner with teams to provide tangible next steps to the Executive and Leadership teams
- Compile, analyse and report on our financial data tailored for each tier of management and Group
- Contribute to improving end-to-end financial data pipeline, controls and structures
- Design and perform ad-hoc analysis and reporting to assist our CFO and Executive & Leadership teams
- Act as a PMO to conduct continuous improvement initiatives in our finance and operational systems
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
- Work on ad-hoc projects as the finance project lead. For example:
- Design and implement new technical accounting standards & operational processes
- Re-fresh our Data Strategy, Data Structures, Data Dictionary and Data Mapping between systems and teams
- Provide guidance to junior finance team members, giving direction on new processes, documenting them and helping to bridge knowledge gaps
- Build executive-level financial and business presentations & internal reports that are clear and concise
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to bring:
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience (2 years FP&A and 3 years Finance/Accounting)
- Tertiary qualification in Accounting/Finance with CA or CPA qualification
- Effective communication skills in order to build relationships and influence across all functions and levels
- A technical understanding of company financials and be able to align with operational metrics to determine and to communicate what success looks like
- Proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel at an advanced level, including ImportRange, large multi-worksheet models, lookups, and pivot tables
- Experience in budget and forecast preparation
- The ability to work autonomously
We would love it if you had (but not essential):
- Experience working with a US multinational
- A passion for helping mitigate the impacts of a changing climate
- Experience using data visualisation, analytics tools and implementing ERP systems
- The ability to wear many hats, you can change from being strategic to rolling up your sleeves and performing hands-on operational tasks
About our culture
At Uber Carshare, we value all people for who they are and what they bring to our community. We encourage our employees to be their genuine authentic selves and know that our team, our product, and our members’ experiences are enhanced by the diversity of perspectives of everyone who works at Uber Carshare.
We offer equal opportunities to all applicants and promote merit and fairness in our employment practices. If you’re passionate about working with a team that is doing something amazing for our community and the environment, come as you are!