Financial Analyst

Full Time
Toronto, ON, Canada
10 months ago

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

FP&A is an integral part of the decision-making process at Lyft, embedded within the business to ensure we maximize ROI and drive to the best possible P&L outcomes. Lyft’s FP&A team is looking for a Financial Analyst to join our Rideshare team to provide financial and analytical support to drive strategic decisions with a focus on Core Systems & Platforms which includes Lyft’s engineering organization. As a Financial Analyst, you will work directly with stakeholders in planning, forecasting and reporting key metrics to senior leadership.

Responsibilities:
  • Support Lyft’s Rideshare team by owning multiple areas of OpEx including maintaining annual budgets and monthly forecasts, closely monitoring actual expenses against projections and identifying areas of variance
  • Partner closely with the accounting team during the month-end close process to ensure accurate general ledger and financial statement reporting
  • Conduct financial analysis, including cost allocation, cost-benefit analysis, and ROI evaluations, to support decision-making processes and provide insights to engineering leaders
  • Undertake interesting and impactful ad hoc analytics and special projects as directed by Leadership
Experience:
  • BA/BS with 2+ years of experience in financial planning and analytics in a rigorous environment (Large company experience preferred either public or private)
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-based environment with minimal supervision
  • Detail oriented and highly organized self-starter with a drive to dig into complex problems
  • Ability to organize and track overlapping tasks and assignments, with frequent priority changes
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Expert in financial modeling with experience manipulating large data sets, and building 
  • Strong G-Sheet and Slide skills is a plus, excel / PPT is ok
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate and influence effectively across various departments
Benefits:
  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building benefits
  • In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
  • 401(k) plan to help save for your future
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule following the establishment of a Lyft office in Toronto — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.