Overview

About the Role 

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Business Analyst to join our Strategic Finance org supporting Instacart Business. Instacart Business is a new way for businesses to shop on Instacart to give them more flexibility to get the last-minute– and often, unexpected– items they need to keep things running. Instacart Business tailors the customer experience specifically for business needs. 

In this role, you will leverage data-driven insights to provide strategic guidance, identify new opportunities, and enhance decision-making within the Instacart Business team . Your work will directly impact our growth strategy and contribute to Instacart Business’s long-term vision of accelerating technology adoption across the entire food and beverage supply chain.

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team is an integral thought partner to Instacart's core functional leaders, providing essential support for strategic, financial, and product decision-making. We serve as a point of connection between teams, facilitating collaboration, idea sharing, and alignment, helping Instacart develop holistic solutions to serve our customers.

About the Job 

In this dynamic role, your responsibilities will include:

• Becoming an expert on current and future customers of Instacart Business, gaining a deep understanding of how we drive growth and solve user problems.
• Develop robust analyses around business performance, user behavior, and competitive environment to inform business decisions.
• Partner with and influence Instacart leadership (product, data science, design, sales / commercial teams and c-suite) to develop high-level strategy, formulate business plans, and evaluate resourcing and profitability trade-offs.
• Work on business problems that involve uncertainty, bringing structure, data, and sound judgment to propose a path forward.
• Facilitate strategic planning in collaboration with cross-functional partners, sizing new opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and implementing performance measurement processes.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• You have 6+ years of experience in strategy and operations, product analytics, financial analysis, or management consulting with a proven track record of leading successful initiatives. 
• You are a strategic thinker that can also dive deep into business problems and convey complex ideas to a wide range of audiences with clarity and structure.
• You are a self-starter with the ability to quickly respond to problems independently and proactively address conflicting stakeholder requirements to achieve creative compromise. You have a proven track record of designing and implementing process improvement projects and improving business metrics in resource-constrained environments.
• You think with data and are proficient with SQL and dashboarding/BI tools. 
• You have a basic understanding of statistics and experimentation methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degrees in business and/or a quantitative discipline (e.g. economics, statistics) and background in marketplace or early stage companies are a plus.

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Last updated on Aug 7, 2024