Associate, Strategic Finance - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Uber

Uber

Verified Company

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1 week ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description

In Finance, we work hand-in-hand with leaders across the company to ensure smooth, disciplined execution of strategic business objectives.

Our Strategic Finance team providex comprehensive financial insight into the business through regional and functional business partnering, forecasting and budgets, and pricing and incentives.

About the Role:

In this role, you will be joining our Rides Strategic Finance team for Middle East and Africa (MEA) and reporting to the Head of Finance, Mobility MEA.

This role supports across Central Operations, Strategy & Planning teams, Regional Finance teams and is in close collaboration with the HQ Finance FP&A and Accounting teams.

The role can be located in Dubai or Amsterdam.

With access to the regional business and across product teams/ verticals, you should be able to reach insights others might not make.

This person should be a key partner in budgeting, optimization and performance tracking to accomplish our financial and operational goals.

You will also be driving strategic analysis and insights to influence finance and business leaders around product portfolio, dynamics, marketplace investments and engagement levers, rider and driver operations.

Besides FP&A, you might be also participating in key strategic projects and establish value processes for investment asks across the region.

If you're ready to go deep working on a set of outstanding challenges and if you've got the finance & excel skills, brain power, passion, professional dedication and a strong team mentality - read on and get in touch

What You'll Do:

Financial modeling: develop models from scratch, improve existing models, and assemble sophisticated business reality/dynamics and interactions into comprehensive models and use those to assess tradeoffs, propose solutions and drive better decision making
Think strategically and implement: the models we build aid in decision making and strategy we operationalize our insights and support daytoday execution
Monthly close: report and analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan use insights to iterate on forecasts and build/discuss potential action plans with crossfunctional customers
Operational improvement: help improve our planning processes and ensure finance standard methodologies spread through the organization. Partner with accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals
Innovate: we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical abilities
Special projects: new initiatives always come up, you will have the chance to chip in beyond regular modelling

Basic Qualifications:

BS/BA in Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics highly preferred
46 years in Investment Banking, Corporate finance, Corporate Development/M&A, operational FP&A or Chief of Staff role at either a highgrowth company or a large, wellestablished organization
Strong Financial Modelling skills: standard methodologies are secondnature, your models are efficient, scalable and intuitive
Excellent communication and people skills: numbers are key, but a business is built with people
Selfstarter: You will take initiative, be dedicated, set and drive toward goals
Attention to detail: consistent with swift and high quality execution. Striking that balance can be daring and this should be a strength of yours

Preferred Qualifications:

Passion for financial modelling
Systems: understanding of enterpriselevel financial planning systems such as IBM Cognos TM
Understanding of US GAAP
SQL skills: the ability to selfserve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective
CFA or CPA

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity.

Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office.

For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time.

Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.