Manager - Strategic Finance

Manager - Strategic Finance

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our Strategic Finance team at Uber Freight. Uber Freight is a fast growing business where you would be responsible for holistic financial support - including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis for a key piece of our business - partnering with the leaders of these areas in making strategic decisions that accelerate growth and drive higher margins.

What the Candidate Will Do

• Think strategically and then execute - the models we build aid in decision making and strategy (e.g. using customer profitability to influence capital allocation and strategy shifts) - we operationalize our insights
• Lead a team - supervise a group of financial analysts engaged in monthly forecasting and close, as well as annual budget process for your assigned area of the business
• Partner across the business - build relationships with senior commercial, operations, and support leaders around the company and collaborate with them to execute our strategy
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and create action
• Sophisticated financial modeling - build models from scratch, improve existing models, break complex models down into components that consolidate - you can do it all
• Help us scale / transition from startup to enterprise - Part of this is maturing our planning processes, part is ensuring finance best practices spread through the organization
• Innovate - we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skill sets

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics
• 3-5 years in FP&A/StratFin at a large enterprise or startup

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the transportation industry
• Elite Excel or Google Sheets skills
• Working knowledge of enterprise-level financial planning systems
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Strong attention to detail
• MBA, CFA or CPA
• SQL/PowerBI/Tableau skills

Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees

Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.

Illinois: The salary range for this role is $100,750 to $144,950 a year

About Uber Freight

Uber Freight helps companies move goods more reliably and efficiently. We bring together the technology, people, and transportation capacity they need, using real?time data from millions of shipments to guide smarter decisions. That helps customers spot issues early, avoid costly surprises, and deliver on time. Uber Freight works with 1 in 3 Fortune 500 shippers across North America and manages over $17B in freight.

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EEOC

Uber Freight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards 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.