About the company
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart is a Flex First team. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.
Responsibilities
- Own the consolidated financial view: a single, reconciled consolidated P&L forecast integrating inputs from the broader StratFin team, Accounting, Business Operations, Investor Relations and more.
- Run the monthly and quarterly close cycle on time and at executive-quality standards, with variance analysis and management reporting packages.
- Build a GAAP and non-GAAP long-range financial model (5-year) reflecting current strategy and updated assumptions, with scenario analysis.
- Orchestrate the annual budgeting process end-to-end, with company-level targets set clearly and cross-functional alignment secured.
- Be the financial narrator for Instacart's story: deliver board decks, investor materials, and quarterly business review packages consistently.
- Synthesize cross-team narratives and business insights into a single, coherent point of view.
- Build the infrastructure that makes it all scalable: forecasting processes that are repeatable, auditable, and aligned with Accounting's close process.
- Design and implement Business Unit P&Ls for clearer accountability and more rigorous investment decisions.
- Grow the team and raise the bar: lead a high-performing team operating at a consistently elevated standard.
Requirements
- Rigorous financial operator and natural integrator.
- Ability to see the forest, not just the trees.
- Experience landing the quarter while anticipating short-, medium-, and long-term corners.
- Ability to consolidate narratives and key business insights across teams into a single, coherent point of view.
- Earn the trust of senior stakeholders through consistently high-quality work.
- Lead a high-performing team and set the bar for what great looks like.