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Senior Financial Analyst - Instacart Business
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
About the Role
Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners across the company to drive clarity, allocate resources, and accelerate growth. We are seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance org supporting Instacart Business & Health – Instacart’s longer-term investment areas focused on empowering businesses and improving health outcomes through food access.
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.
This is a rare opportunity to build from first principles while also scaling what works—ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys rolling up their sleeves, and wants to make a tangible impact on Instacart’s next phase of growth.
About the Team
The Strategic Finance team is an integral thought partner to Instacart's core functional leaders, providing essential support for strategic, financial/investment, and product decision-making. We serve as a point of connection between teams, facilitating collaboration, idea sharing, and alignment to achieve our desired business outcomes.
About the Job
- Serve as the primary strategic finance business partner for Instacart Business and Instacart Health, becoming an expert by gaining a deep understanding of how we drive growth and solve user problems.
- Partner with and influence Instacart leadership (Product/Eng, Data Science, Sales/Commercial teams and C-suite) to develop high-level strategy, formulate business plans, pricing, and evaluate resourcing and profitability trade-offs.
- Work on business problems that involve uncertainty, bringing structure, data, and sound judgment to propose a clear and executable plan.
- Produce executive-ready narratives and materials for business reviews, planning cycles, and leadership updates; communicate complex analyses with clarity and conviction.
- Facilitate strategic planning in collaboration with cross-functional partners, sizing new opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and implementing performance measurement processes.
- Proactively identify opportunities to automate and improve reporting and planning processes, including exploring AI-enabled workflows to increase speed and accuracy.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, business operations, investment banking, management consulting, or private equity.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Advanced financial modeling in Excel or Google Sheets; demonstrated ability to build models and reporting from scratch.
- Proficiency with SQL and BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau) to self-serve analysis and automate reporting; experience leveraging AI or scripting to streamline workflows.
- Self-starter with the ability to quickly respond to problems independently and proactively address conflicting stakeholder requirements to achieve creative compromise.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of producing executive-ready materials.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment while managing multiple priorities and meeting tight deadlines.
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.
- Preferred location is San Francisco Bay Area or New York City; remote candidates within the United States and Canada are welcome to apply.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Senior Financial Analyst - Instacart Business
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
About the Role
Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners across the company to drive clarity, allocate resources, and accelerate growth. We are seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance org supporting Instacart Business & Health – Instacart’s longer-term investment areas focused on empowering businesses and improving health outcomes through food access.
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.
This is a rare opportunity to build from first principles while also scaling what works—ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys rolling up their sleeves, and wants to make a tangible impact on Instacart’s next phase of growth.
About the Team
The Strategic Finance team is an integral thought partner to Instacart's core functional leaders, providing essential support for strategic, financial/investment, and product decision-making. We serve as a point of connection between teams, facilitating collaboration, idea sharing, and alignment to achieve our desired business outcomes.
About the Job
- Serve as the primary strategic finance business partner for Instacart Business and Instacart Health, becoming an expert by gaining a deep understanding of how we drive growth and solve user problems.
- Partner with and influence Instacart leadership (Product/Eng, Data Science, Sales/Commercial teams and C-suite) to develop high-level strategy, formulate business plans, pricing, and evaluate resourcing and profitability trade-offs.
- Work on business problems that involve uncertainty, bringing structure, data, and sound judgment to propose a clear and executable plan.
- Produce executive-ready narratives and materials for business reviews, planning cycles, and leadership updates; communicate complex analyses with clarity and conviction.
- Facilitate strategic planning in collaboration with cross-functional partners, sizing new opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and implementing performance measurement processes.
- Proactively identify opportunities to automate and improve reporting and planning processes, including exploring AI-enabled workflows to increase speed and accuracy.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, business operations, investment banking, management consulting, or private equity.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Advanced financial modeling in Excel or Google Sheets; demonstrated ability to build models and reporting from scratch.
- Proficiency with SQL and BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau) to self-serve analysis and automate reporting; experience leveraging AI or scripting to streamline workflows.
- Self-starter with the ability to quickly respond to problems independently and proactively address conflicting stakeholder requirements to achieve creative compromise.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of producing executive-ready materials.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment while managing multiple priorities and meeting tight deadlines.
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.
- Preferred location is San Francisco Bay Area or New York City; remote candidates within the United States and Canada are welcome to apply.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious analyst to shape the future of financial data at Instacart, driving innovation at the intersection of systems, analytics, and business strategy.
In this role, you will architect and deliver data models, pipelines, and reporting infrastructure that empower Finance and Accounting with trusted insights at scale.
You’ll collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure financial data is accurate, reliable, and compliant, while also advancing large-scale systems initiatives, accelerating the month-end close, and optimizing cloud spend in our AWS environment.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Financial Data Analytics team is the connective tissue between Finance, Accounting, and Engineering. Our mission is to deliver trusted financial data that is both a foundation for compliance and a catalyst for strategic decision-making. We combine technical depth with financial expertise to build scalable, high-value data solutions—transforming complexity into clarity and empowering leaders to act with confidence.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Bridge Data & Business Needs – Translate business requirements into scalable data models by asking the right questions, digging into details, and mining insights that create measurable impact.
- Own Data Initiatives End-to-End – Take ambiguous ideas and transform them into well-defined, high-impact projects with clear deliverables.
- Build Decision-Making Tools – Design and automate dashboards, models, and reporting systems that surface clear insights and guide long-term growth strategies.
- Support Revenue Accounting – Build and maintain data products (dashboards, reports, analyses) that underpin the Revenue Accounting organization, including embedding revenue recognition logic into robust financial data models.
- Ensure Compliance & Governance – Apply compliance-first design principles to support SOX, audit readiness, and enforce data governance standards.
- Maintain Data Integrity – Implement validation, monitoring, and reconciliation frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability across financial datasets.
- Drive Continuous Improvement – Proactively identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and system enhancement, unlocking efficiency across Finance and Accounting.
- Leverage AI & Next-Generation Analytics – Harness cutting-edge AI technologies (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Python ML libraries, Copilot) to reimagine how financial data is modeled, automated, and delivered—accelerating insights, scaling workflows, and shaping the future of financial analytics.
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 5+ years (7+ preferred) of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering roles
- Strong SQL and cloud data fundamentals, with hands-on experience in Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools (Mode, Looker, Tableau, etc.)
- Experience building and supporting complex data pipelines with emphasis on accuracy, compliance, and traceability
- Familiarity with financial data structures, accounting processes, and enterprise systems (e.g., Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Adaptive)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively across technical and non-technical teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Public company experience with exposure to SOX compliance
- Background in high-growth technology environments
- Experience implementing large-scale financial or operational systems (ERP, enterprise data platforms, etc.)
- Project management experience a plus
- Demonstrated ability to support Finance and Accounting teams with scalable data solutions
- Cloud cost management experience, ideally in an AWS environment
- Familiarity with AI/ML applications in data analytics (e.g., natural language SQL tools, forecasting models, anomaly detection frameworks)
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious analyst to shape the future of financial data at Instacart, driving innovation at the intersection of systems, analytics, and business strategy.
In this role, you will architect and deliver data models, pipelines, and reporting infrastructure that empower Finance and Accounting with trusted insights at scale.
You’ll collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure financial data is accurate, reliable, and compliant, while also advancing large-scale systems initiatives, accelerating the month-end close, and optimizing cloud spend in our AWS environment.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Financial Data Analytics team is the connective tissue between Finance, Accounting, and Engineering. Our mission is to deliver trusted financial data that is both a foundation for compliance and a catalyst for strategic decision-making. We combine technical depth with financial expertise to build scalable, high-value data solutions—transforming complexity into clarity and empowering leaders to act with confidence.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Bridge Data & Business Needs – Translate business requirements into scalable data models by asking the right questions, digging into details, and mining insights that create measurable impact.
- Own Data Initiatives End-to-End – Take ambiguous ideas and transform them into well-defined, high-impact projects with clear deliverables.
- Build Decision-Making Tools – Design and automate dashboards, models, and reporting systems that surface clear insights and guide long-term growth strategies.
- Support Revenue Accounting – Build and maintain data products (dashboards, reports, analyses) that underpin the Revenue Accounting organization, including embedding revenue recognition logic into robust financial data models.
- Ensure Compliance & Governance – Apply compliance-first design principles to support SOX, audit readiness, and enforce data governance standards.
- Maintain Data Integrity – Implement validation, monitoring, and reconciliation frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability across financial datasets.
- Drive Continuous Improvement – Proactively identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and system enhancement, unlocking efficiency across Finance and Accounting.
- Leverage AI & Next-Generation Analytics – Harness cutting-edge AI technologies (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Python ML libraries, Copilot) to reimagine how financial data is modeled, automated, and delivered—accelerating insights, scaling workflows, and shaping the future of financial analytics.
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 5+ years (7+ preferred) of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering roles
- Strong SQL and cloud data fundamentals, with hands-on experience in Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools (Mode, Looker, Tableau, etc.)
- Experience building and supporting complex data pipelines with emphasis on accuracy, compliance, and traceability
- Familiarity with financial data structures, accounting processes, and enterprise systems (e.g., Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Adaptive)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively across technical and non-technical teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Public company experience with exposure to SOX compliance
- Background in high-growth technology environments
- Experience implementing large-scale financial or operational systems (ERP, enterprise data platforms, etc.)
- Project management experience a plus
- Demonstrated ability to support Finance and Accounting teams with scalable data solutions
- Cloud cost management experience, ideally in an AWS environment
- Familiarity with AI/ML applications in data analytics (e.g., natural language SQL tools, forecasting models, anomaly detection frameworks)
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Business Systems Analyst II - Order to Cash (O2C)
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
The Finance Systems and Solutions (FINSS) team owns the end-to-end lifecycle, governance, and evolution of technology systems that enables Finance across Instacart. We align deeply with Finance leadership to ensure that systems serve not just as tools, but as strategic enablers of insight, control, and growth.
We are seeking a Business Systems Analyst II (L4) to support the design, configuration, and delivery of Order to Cash (O2C) system solutions in Oracle Cloud ERP and related platforms. This role will contribute to projects across Billing, Credit & Collections, and Customer Data Management (CDM), working closely with Finance, Accounting, Sales/Operations, IT, Product, and Engineering partners.
As a core member of the Financial Systems team, you will help translate business requirements into scalable solutions, assist in testing and deployment, and partner with support counterparts to resolve issues and deliver enhancements. This role is ideal for someone looking to deepen their expertise in O2C systems while contributing to impactful enterprise initiatives.
About the Job
Solution Delivery & Execution
- Support and at times lead discovery, design, configuration, and testing of Oracle Cloud O2C modules (AR, Billing, Collections, Credit, CDM), High Radius, and Billing Platform (or related billing and revenue recognition product).
- Partner with senior BSAs and project leads to ensure solutions meet functional and compliance requirements.
- Document requirements, configurations, and test results to support auditability and readiness.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Sales/Operations, IT, Product, and Engineering to gather requirements and validate solutions.
- Work with operational support counterparts to address system issues and integrate user feedback into enhancements.
- Serve as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication.
Process Optimization & Compliance
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency in O2C processes through automation, standardization, and Oracle capabilities.
- Assist in ensuring compliance with SOX, internal controls, and audit requirements by following established practices and documentation standards.
- Contribute to maintaining documentation for process and system changes.
Innovation & Continuous Learning
- Stay current on Oracle Cloud quarterly releases and O2C features, contributing ideas for adoption.
- Participate in enablement sessions, workshops, and team knowledge-sharing activities.
- Explore exposure to AI and automation use cases in O2C (e.g., predictive collections, cash application automation).
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in financial systems, ERP, or business systems roles, including at least 2 years with Oracle Cloud ERP O2C modules.
- Experience contributing to ERP/O2C implementations (supporting design, testing, deployment).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to create clear documentation and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Background working in agile or hybrid delivery models.
- Curious and eager to build expertise in O2C and ERP systems.
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Open to feedback, mentorship, and continuous learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Salesforce, billing/revenue platforms (Billing Platform), or collections tools (e.g., HighRadius).
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, or tools like OIC.
- Interest in automation, AI-enabled processes, or advanced reporting in financial systems
- Oracle Financials Cloud: Receivables Certified Implementation Professional Certification
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Senior Strategic Financial Analyst – Growth
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners across the company to drive clarity, decisions, and results. Within our Growth pillar, we lead forecasting and insights for our Core grocery business. We are hiring a Senior Strategic Financial Analyst to own topline forecasting, deepen understanding of revenue and unit economics, and translate insights into actions that accelerate growth.
In this role, you’ll join a small, high-impact team within a 25-person Strategic Finance org. You’ll partner closely with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science, and you’ll regularly develop materials for and engage with senior leadership. If you thrive on rolling up your sleeves, diving into data, and shaping strategy with executive stakeholders, this role offers meaningful scope and visibility.
This is a remote role open to candidates across the U.S. and Canada; West Coast time zone preference is helpful but not required.
About the Job
- Own topline forecasting for Instacart’s Core grocery business, building and maintaining driver-based models that clearly tie to business performance and operational levers.
- Lead proactive deep dives on revenue and unit economics (e.g., LTV, CAC, conversion, AOV, contribution margin) to identify growth opportunities, surface risks, and recommend experiments that improve forecast accuracy and business outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science to align assumptions, improve data quality, instrument new metrics, and operationalize insights into roadmaps.
- Develop executive-ready materials for leadership, including narrative memos, dashboards, and scenario/sensitivity analyses that inform strategic priorities, resource allocation, and trade-off decisions.
- Own initiative reporting across marketing, product, and enterprise programs; standardize measurement, track incremental impact, and ensure clear readouts for weekly growth reviews, monthly business reviews, and ad hoc deep dives.
- Collaborate with other Strategic Finance teams to assess the impact of retailer, supply, and marketing initiatives on Core business performance; support investor relations, Board materials, and company-wide Planning.
- Continuously refine and automate models and reporting to improve speed, accuracy, and decision-making, balancing near-term deliverables with long-term scalability.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in strategic finance/FP&A, investment banking, or management consulting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, including building driver-based financial models, revenue forecasts, and scenario/sensitivity analyses.
- Experience preparing and presenting executive-ready materials to VP/C-suite stakeholders, with the ability to distill complex data into clear business narratives.
- Track record of owning end-to-end forecasting and performance reporting for a product line, business segment, or revenue stream.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a two-sided marketplace or consumer internet business (e.g., on-demand, e-commerce, advertising, or subscription models).
- Proficiency with SQL for self-serve analysis; familiarity with BI tools such as Looker or Tableau.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally to define metrics, align on assumptions, evaluate experiments, and operationalize insights.
- Background creating materials for Board meetings, investor relations, and quarterly/monthly business reviews in a high-growth environment.
- MBA, CFA, or other relevant advanced credential.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across time zones; availability to align to West Coast hours when needed is a plus.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Senior Strategic Financial Analyst – Growth
Share this job
We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners across the company to drive clarity, decisions, and results. Within our Growth pillar, we lead forecasting and insights for our Core grocery business. We are hiring a Senior Strategic Financial Analyst to own topline forecasting, deepen understanding of revenue and unit economics, and translate insights into actions that accelerate growth.
In this role, you’ll join a small, high-impact team within a 25-person Strategic Finance org. You’ll partner closely with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science, and you’ll regularly develop materials for and engage with senior leadership. If you thrive on rolling up your sleeves, diving into data, and shaping strategy with executive stakeholders, this role offers meaningful scope and visibility.
This is a remote role open to candidates across the U.S. and Canada; West Coast time zone preference is helpful but not required.
About the Job
- Own topline forecasting for Instacart’s Core grocery business, building and maintaining driver-based models that clearly tie to business performance and operational levers.
- Lead proactive deep dives on revenue and unit economics (e.g., LTV, CAC, conversion, AOV, contribution margin) to identify growth opportunities, surface risks, and recommend experiments that improve forecast accuracy and business outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science to align assumptions, improve data quality, instrument new metrics, and operationalize insights into roadmaps.
- Develop executive-ready materials for leadership, including narrative memos, dashboards, and scenario/sensitivity analyses that inform strategic priorities, resource allocation, and trade-off decisions.
- Own initiative reporting across marketing, product, and enterprise programs; standardize measurement, track incremental impact, and ensure clear readouts for weekly growth reviews, monthly business reviews, and ad hoc deep dives.
- Collaborate with other Strategic Finance teams to assess the impact of retailer, supply, and marketing initiatives on Core business performance; support investor relations, Board materials, and company-wide Planning.
- Continuously refine and automate models and reporting to improve speed, accuracy, and decision-making, balancing near-term deliverables with long-term scalability.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in strategic finance/FP&A, investment banking, or management consulting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, including building driver-based financial models, revenue forecasts, and scenario/sensitivity analyses.
- Experience preparing and presenting executive-ready materials to VP/C-suite stakeholders, with the ability to distill complex data into clear business narratives.
- Track record of owning end-to-end forecasting and performance reporting for a product line, business segment, or revenue stream.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a two-sided marketplace or consumer internet business (e.g., on-demand, e-commerce, advertising, or subscription models).
- Proficiency with SQL for self-serve analysis; familiarity with BI tools such as Looker or Tableau.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally to define metrics, align on assumptions, evaluate experiments, and operationalize insights.
- Background creating materials for Board meetings, investor relations, and quarterly/monthly business reviews in a high-growth environment.
- MBA, CFA, or other relevant advanced credential.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across time zones; availability to align to West Coast hours when needed is a plus.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
We are seeking a strategic and detail-oriented leader with deep expertise in technical revenue accounting principles to join our team. The ideal candidate will bring a strong technical accounting background paired with the ability to partner and communicate effectively with external stakeholders to drive desired business outcomes. This role is critical in ensuring new and existing revenue arrangements and policies are assessed and are in compliance with US GAAP while driving continuous process improvements and delivering valuable insights to senior management.
This role reports to the Senior Manager of Technical Revenue Accounting within the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) organization. The Technical Revenue team works closely with Finance, Legal, BD, and other business units to ensure compliance with accounting standards, SEC regulations, and internal policies. The team also plays a pivotal role in delivering accurate and strategic communications to external stakeholders.
About the Job
- Research and provide detailed insights and guidance regarding the accounting treatment of various proposed contracts and product offerings in accordance with ASC 606
- Analyze customer contracts to identify key terms and ensure appropriate accounting treatment in accordance with ASC 606
- Draft, and maintain technical accounting memos and policies to support revenue accounting conclusions for new and existing product lines
- Collaborate with external auditors to provide documentation for policy positions in support of quarterly reviews and annual audits
- Collaborate cross functionally with Finance, Deal Desk, Legal, Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to advise on new contracts and products
- Own review of quarterly SOX contract controls
About You
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA certification required
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience in both public accounting and industry with a focus on revenue recognition
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP with a focus on ASC 606 and ASC 340
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence collaborate effectively with stakeholders across all levels
- High attention to detail and commitment to completeness, accuracy, and integrity in financial reporting
Preferred Requirements:
- Direct experience with public marketplace and/or SaaS companies
- Ability to adapt quickly and simultaneously manage multiple projects to a fast-paced and dynamic environment
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners across the business to drive clarity, decisions, and results. Within our Retailer and Consumer pillar, we serve as the “CFO in the room” on high-impact initiatives and deliver the forecasts and insights that shape how we grow. We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to own monthly revenue forecasting for our retailer and consumer businesses—two of the largest areas of the P&L representing billions of dollars annually—and to surface the trends and opportunities that keep us moving forward.
In this role, you’ll join a close-knit team of 10 and report directly to the Director of Strategic Finance. You’ll collaborate daily with Business Development, Product, Data Science, and Accounting, and regularly engage with senior leadership. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy rolling up your sleeves to build driver-based models, and are excited to influence decisions at board and C-suite levels, this is an opportunity to make an outsized impact.
About the Job
You will lead forecasting, reporting, and strategic analysis that guide Instacart’s most critical revenue decisions.
- Own monthly retailer and consumer revenue forecasting end-to-end, building and maintaining driver-based models that tie to business performance and operational levers.
- Run monthly and quarterly variance analysis against forecast and plan; translate complex trends into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Develop executive-ready materials for the board and C-suite, including narrative memos, dashboards, and scenario analyses that inform strategic priorities.
- Partner cross-functionally with Business Development, Product, Data Science, and Accounting to align on assumptions, improve data quality, and operationalize insights.
- Lead proactive deep dives on revenue and unit economics to identify growth opportunities, risks, and experiments that improve accuracy and business outcomes.
About You
You combine rigorous financial modeling with crisp communication and executive presence. You’re energized by ambiguity, move quickly without sacrificing quality, and collaborate effectively across functions to get to the right answer.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance/FP&A, or management consulting supporting high-growth technology or marketplace businesses.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, including building driver-based financial models, scenario/sensitivity analyses, and revenue forecasting.
- Proven experience owning monthly forecasting and variance analysis for complex P&L components, with a track record of improving forecast accuracy.
- Experience preparing and presenting executive-ready materials to VP/C-suite stakeholders, with the ability to distill complex data into clear business narratives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a two-sided marketplace or consumer internet business (e.g., on-demand, e-commerce, advertising, or subscription models).
- Proficiency with SQL for self-serve data analysis; familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau) a plus.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and Data Science to define metrics, align on assumptions, and evaluate experiments.
- Background creating materials for board meetings and quarterly business reviews in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Knowledge of GAAP revenue concepts relevant to marketplaces and consumer businesses.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
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Strategic Finance Manager
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners across the business to drive clarity, decisions, and results. Within our Retailer and Consumer pillar, we serve as the “CFO in the room” on high-impact initiatives and deliver the forecasts and insights that shape how we grow. We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to own monthly revenue forecasting for our retailer and consumer businesses—two of the largest areas of the P&L representing billions of dollars annually—and to surface the trends and opportunities that keep us moving forward.
In this role, you’ll join a close-knit team of 10 and report directly to the Director of Strategic Finance. You’ll collaborate daily with Business Development, Product, Data Science, and Accounting, and regularly engage with senior leadership. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy rolling up your sleeves to build driver-based models, and are excited to influence decisions at board and C-suite levels, this is an opportunity to make an outsized impact.
About the Job
You will lead forecasting, reporting, and strategic analysis that guide Instacart’s most critical revenue decisions.
- Own monthly retailer and consumer revenue forecasting end-to-end, building and maintaining driver-based models that tie to business performance and operational levers.
- Run monthly and quarterly variance analysis against forecast and plan; translate complex trends into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Develop executive-ready materials for the board and C-suite, including narrative memos, dashboards, and scenario analyses that inform strategic priorities.
- Partner cross-functionally with Business Development, Product, Data Science, and Accounting to align on assumptions, improve data quality, and operationalize insights.
- Lead proactive deep dives on revenue and unit economics to identify growth opportunities, risks, and experiments that improve accuracy and business outcomes.
About You
You combine rigorous financial modeling with crisp communication and executive presence. You’re energized by ambiguity, move quickly without sacrificing quality, and collaborate effectively across functions to get to the right answer.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance/FP&A, or management consulting supporting high-growth technology or marketplace businesses.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, including building driver-based financial models, scenario/sensitivity analyses, and revenue forecasting.
- Proven experience owning monthly forecasting and variance analysis for complex P&L components, with a track record of improving forecast accuracy.
- Experience preparing and presenting executive-ready materials to VP/C-suite stakeholders, with the ability to distill complex data into clear business narratives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a two-sided marketplace or consumer internet business (e.g., on-demand, e-commerce, advertising, or subscription models).
- Proficiency with SQL for self-serve data analysis; familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau) a plus.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and Data Science to define metrics, align on assumptions, and evaluate experiments.
- Background creating materials for board meetings and quarterly business reviews in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Knowledge of GAAP revenue concepts relevant to marketplaces and consumer businesses.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Strategic Finance Analyst, Product Finance
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Analyst, Product Finance to join Instacart’s Strategic Finance team supporting Instacart Ads and Enterprise SaaS business units. You’ll help shape the next phase of growth at Instacart ads by partnering on our most critical initiatives, building business cases and P&L models, and translating insights into decisions that move the business forward.
In this role, you’ll partner closely with Ads Product, Carrot Ads, and our enterprise SaaS team to connect strategy to financial outcomes, prioritize initiatives, and deliver crisp, executive-ready narratives. If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves, collaborating across functions, and using data to influence strategy in a fast-paced environment, this role offers meaningful scope and visibility.
Instacart Ads helps brands of all sizes put their products in front of millions of high-intent customers. With products, tools, insights, and automation, our ads platform drives measurable impact from discovery to purchase—making your analyses central to how we grow the pie for advertisers, retailers, and customers alike.
About the Job
- Own critical portions of Instacart Ads revenue initiatives, including planning, forecasting, deal approvals, and resource investments.
- Partner with Ads Product, Carrot Ads, and our enterprise SaaS team to translate strategy into measurable financial outcomes and recommend actions that drive revenue.
- Design and implement financial processes and dashboards that leverage internal data and KPIs to monitor performance, surface insights, and automate recurring reporting.
- Build monthly and quarterly performance materials for leadership, including forecast updates, variance analyses, and materials for board and investor reviews.
- Conduct ad hoc financial modeling and deep dives on initiatives such as SaaS performance, pricing and packaging, cohort performance, and attribution; self-serve data with SQL when needed.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of experience in strategic finance at a high growth technology company, investment banking, or consulting
- Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, including building driver-based financial models, cohort analyses, and scenario/sensitivity modeling.
- Experience building revenue forecasts and translating KPIs into financial outcomes for an operating business.
- Proven ability to create executive-ready materials and present insights to cross-functional and senior audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Intermediate SQL (e.g., joins, window functions) and experience working with large datasets; familiarity with Looker or Tableau.
- Experience in digital advertising, ad tech, e-commerce media, or SaaS monetization models.
- Experience preparing materials for board and investor audiences.
- Ability to support West Coast business hours in a distributed, remote environment.
- Self-starter who thrives in fast-changing environments; collaborative, low-ego approach—and an appreciation for good food puns.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Strategic Finance Analyst, Product Finance
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Analyst, Product Finance to join Instacart’s Strategic Finance team supporting Instacart Ads and Enterprise SaaS business units. You’ll help shape the next phase of growth at Instacart ads by partnering on our most critical initiatives, building business cases and P&L models, and translating insights into decisions that move the business forward.
In this role, you’ll partner closely with Ads Product, Carrot Ads, and our enterprise SaaS team to connect strategy to financial outcomes, prioritize initiatives, and deliver crisp, executive-ready narratives. If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves, collaborating across functions, and using data to influence strategy in a fast-paced environment, this role offers meaningful scope and visibility.
Instacart Ads helps brands of all sizes put their products in front of millions of high-intent customers. With products, tools, insights, and automation, our ads platform drives measurable impact from discovery to purchase—making your analyses central to how we grow the pie for advertisers, retailers, and customers alike.
About the Job
- Own critical portions of Instacart Ads revenue initiatives, including planning, forecasting, deal approvals, and resource investments.
- Partner with Ads Product, Carrot Ads, and our enterprise SaaS team to translate strategy into measurable financial outcomes and recommend actions that drive revenue.
- Design and implement financial processes and dashboards that leverage internal data and KPIs to monitor performance, surface insights, and automate recurring reporting.
- Build monthly and quarterly performance materials for leadership, including forecast updates, variance analyses, and materials for board and investor reviews.
- Conduct ad hoc financial modeling and deep dives on initiatives such as SaaS performance, pricing and packaging, cohort performance, and attribution; self-serve data with SQL when needed.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of experience in strategic finance at a high growth technology company, investment banking, or consulting
- Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, including building driver-based financial models, cohort analyses, and scenario/sensitivity modeling.
- Experience building revenue forecasts and translating KPIs into financial outcomes for an operating business.
- Proven ability to create executive-ready materials and present insights to cross-functional and senior audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Intermediate SQL (e.g., joins, window functions) and experience working with large datasets; familiarity with Looker or Tableau.
- Experience in digital advertising, ad tech, e-commerce media, or SaaS monetization models.
- Experience preparing materials for board and investor audiences.
- Ability to support West Coast business hours in a distributed, remote environment.
- Self-starter who thrives in fast-changing environments; collaborative, low-ego approach—and an appreciation for good food puns.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
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Senior Analyst, Tax Provision & Compliance
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We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
Instacart’s Tax team partners across the business to ensure accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting while enabling smart, scalable growth. We are seeking a Senior Analyst, Tax Provision & Compliance to support our quarterly and annual income tax provision in accordance with ASC 740 and related standards, and to contribute to our income tax compliance processes. This role reports directly to the Director, Tax Provision & Compliance and works closely with Controllership, FP&A, Legal, Internal Audit, and Treasury.
In this role, you will take on meaningful ownership of provision and compliance workflows that directly impact our effective tax rate, cash taxes, and external financial reporting. You’ll collaborate with internal partners and external advisors and auditors to deliver high-quality results on tight timelines in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
This is an exciting opportunity to help build and enhance processes, implement provision software and other tax technology, and drive automation and efficiency across the tax function. You’ll have the chance to work directly with the Director of Tax Provision & Compliance and a broader Tax team of 19 (including 4 on the Direct Tax team) while partnering with our external auditors and advisors.
About the Job
- Prepare and review the quarterly and annual income tax provision in compliance with ASC 740, FIN 18, and related standards.
- Execute and review global income tax reporting calculations, including deferred tax assets/liabilities, valuation allowances, uncertain tax positions (FIN 48), and effective tax rate analyses.
- Support tax accounting for stock-based compensation and prepare return-to-provision reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Partner with FP&A to model and forecast future effective tax rates and cash taxes; provide scenario analyses to inform business decisions.
- Draft and support tax disclosures for SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q) and other financial statements in partnership with Controllership and Investor Relations.
- Maintain SOX-compliant documentation, execute and evidence key internal controls for tax reporting, and support internal/external audit requests.
- Prepare and review federal and state income tax returns and workpapers, including U.S. taxation of foreign operations (GILTI/FDII/Subpart F); manage estimated and extension payment calculations; maintain the tax calendar.
- Monitor and research legislative and regulatory changes (including Pillar Two), assess impacts, and draft clear technical memos.
- Drive process optimization initiatives, including evaluating and implementing provision software and other tax technology and automation tools.
- Support income tax audits and R&D tax credit studies; collaborate with cross-functional partners and external advisors to resolve issues efficiently.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 3–5+ years of progressive corporate income tax experience focused on ASC 740 tax provision and U.S. federal and multistate income tax compliance in public accounting and/or a corporate tax department.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience preparing and/or reviewing quarterly and annual tax provisions, including deferred tax, valuation allowance, and uncertain tax position (FIN 48) analyses.
- Experience preparing and/or reviewing U.S. federal and multistate corporate income tax returns, including estimated and extension payment calculations and return-to-provision reconciliations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., advanced formulas and pivot tables) to analyze large datasets and build robust workpapers.
- Experience supporting SOX controls for income tax reporting and working with internal and external auditors.
- Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration with Controllership/Accounting, FP&A, and Legal on tax accounting and reporting deliverables.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in public accounting (Big 4 preferred) and/or corporate tax at a multinational public company.
- CPA and/or MST (Master’s in Taxation).
- Experience with stock-based compensation tax accounting (ASC 718) and drafting SEC tax disclosures for Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
- Familiarity with international tax concepts and U.S. taxation of foreign operations (GILTI, FDII, Subpart F) and awareness of Pillar Two developments.
- Experience with Onesource Tax Provision (or similar), Oracle ERP, and Google Workspace; comfort implementing new tax technology and automation.
- Experience supporting income tax audits and R&D tax credit studies; exposure to Section 174 capitalization.
- Track record of building or improving processes in fast-paced environments with multiple, time-sensitive deadlines.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
We're transforming the grocery industry
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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Director, Head of SOX to lead and elevate our Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program as we continue maturing as a public company. We need a proven SOX expert with deep technical expertise—not a generalist internal audit background—to strengthen our internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) in a highly complex technology infrastructure and business environment.
This is a transformational role requiring someone who can assess our current state, identify opportunities for enhancement, and implement sustainable improvements. As many stakeholders are still building their public company expertise, you will need to balance education and enablement with driving continued maturation of our controls framework. This role demands someone who thrives in technical complexity and can dive extraordinarily deep into complex IT General Controls (ITGCs) and IT Application Controls (ITACs).
About the Role
You will own the complete SOX compliance lifecycle—from scoping and risk assessment through testing, remediation, and continuous improvement. Given our organization's complexity and the team's evolving SOX maturity, you must be both a technical expert and an effective educator, capable of building SOX competency across finance, technology, and operations while strengthening our foundational controls.
Critical focus areas include:
- Program enhancement and maturation: You'll evaluate our existing SOX program, identify areas for strengthening, and implement improvements to ensure we continue building a robust, efficient compliance framework.
- Deep technical expertise in ITGCs and ITACs: You'll navigate complex technology environments, including modern cloud architectures, APIs, data pipelines, DevOps practices, and integrated systems. Surface-level understanding won't suffice—you must go into the weeds to truly understand control design and operating effectiveness.
- Education and enablement: You'll continue developing organizational SOX capability through training programs and hands-on guidance to stakeholders building their public company expertise.
- Framework optimization: You'll refine and mature our controls framework, making it more efficient, risk-based, and scalable for our unique business model and technology stack.
You'll partner closely with executive leadership, finance, IT/Engineering, external auditors, and other key stakeholders to establish financial reporting integrity and build sustainable compliance practices.
About the Team
You'll lead and strengthen the SOX compliance function, establishing it as a trusted center of excellence. You'll work across the organization—collaborating with finance, accounting, IT, security, legal, and business operations—to embed controls thinking into how we operate. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your expertise will directly shape our compliance maturity and risk posture.
Key Responsibilities
SOX Program Leadership & Optimization
- Lead the end-to-end SOX compliance program, driving continuous improvement and maturation
- Assess and enhance our scoping methodology to ensure appropriate coverage of in-scope systems, processes, and controls
- Refine process narratives, risk-control matrices, and control documentation for clarity and completeness
- Execute risk assessments to validate and prioritize key financial, operational, and IT controls
- Ensure compliance with Section 404(b) of SOX and PCAOB audit standards
- Identify and implement efficiency opportunities while maintaining control effectiveness
IT Controls Expertise (ITGCs & ITACs)
- Go exceptionally deep into IT General Controls across access management, change management, computer operations, and program development
- Assess and strengthen IT Application Controls within complex, interconnected technology environments
- Evaluate controls in modern tech stacks including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS applications, custom-built systems, data warehouses, and integration layers
- Understand technical architectures sufficiently to identify control gaps and design effective, practical controls
- Partner with IT, Engineering, and Security teams to implement sustainable technology controls
Education & Organizational Development
- Develop and deliver SOX training programs for employees at all levels, from executives to process owners
- Create educational materials, playbooks, and resources to build SOX literacy across the organization
- Serve as the go-to SOX subject matter expert, providing guidance and answering complex technical questions
- Build a culture of controls awareness and compliance accountability
Testing & Remediation
- Design and execute comprehensive control testing programs (design and operating effectiveness)
- Identify control deficiencies, assess severity, and drive timely remediation with process owners
- Document testing results, deficiencies, and management responses with precision and clarity
- Track remediation efforts and validate effectiveness of corrective actions
- Ensure lessons learned inform ongoing improvements
Governance & Reporting
- Report regularly to the CFO, Audit Committee, and SteerCo on SOX program status, risks, and deficiencies
- Prepare management's assessment of ICFR effectiveness for SEC filings
- Develop executive-level dashboards and metrics to provide transparency into compliance status
- Build confidence with leadership and the Audit Committee through clear, proactive communication
External Audit Management
- Serve as primary liaison with external auditors (PwC) for SOX-related matters
- Coordinate audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, and issue resolution with internal auditors (EY)
- Provide timely, complete documentation and responses to auditor requests
- Manage audit timelines and deliverables to ensure efficient, successful audits
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with audit partners
Continuous Improvement & Automation
- Identify opportunities to streamline controls, reduce manual effort, and improve efficiency
- Leverage technology solutions (GRC platforms, automation tools, monitoring capabilities) to enhance the control environment
- Assess impact of system changes, implementations, and business transformations on controls
- Drive process improvements that strengthen controls while enabling business agility
Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop the SOX team, providing clear direction and support
- Foster a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and proactive problem-solving
- Provide career development opportunities and technical training for team members
- Build team capability and confidence
About You
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field
- CPA, CISA, or CIA certification required (CPA strongly preferred)
- 15+ years of progressive, hands-on SOX compliance experience, with significant time spent in technical SOX roles (not general internal audit)
- Deep, demonstrable expertise in ITGCs and ITACs—you must be able to discuss technical control design and testing at a granular level
- Proven track record of successfully strengthening and maturing SOX programs, particularly in complex technology environments
- Experience building credibility and driving results in dynamic, fast-paced organizations
- Comprehensive knowledge of SOX regulations, COSO framework, PCAOB standards, and US GAAP
- Proven ability to work in highly technical environments and understand complex system architectures, integrations, and data flows
- Strong executive presence with ability to educate and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills—able to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
- Demonstrated ability to build trust quickly and establish yourself as a credible leader
Preferred Qualifications
- Big Four public accounting firm experience with focus on SOX advisory or audit (Manager level or above)
- Experience with public companies, particularly in technology or SaaS environments
- Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Accounting, MS in Information Systems)
- Experience with modern ERP systems (NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Workday) and financial close/consolidation tools
- Familiarity with GRC platforms (AuditBoard, Workiva, ServiceNow, etc.)
- Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and modern software development practices
- Experience in high-growth technology, SaaS, or fintech environments
- CRISC, CISSP, or other information security certifications demonstrating technical depth
- Experience coaching and developing SOX teams
What Sets the Ideal Candidate Apart
You are not a generalist—you are a SOX technical specialist who genuinely enjoys diving into complex control environments. You can read system architecture diagrams, understand data lineage, and assess whether a control is truly effective or just "checkbox compliance." You're energized by complexity, not intimidated by it.
You're a proven leader who can step into an organization, quickly assess what's working and what needs enhancement, and implement improvements that drive real results. You know how to build credibility, gain stakeholder trust, and deliver outcomes in dynamic environments.
You're a builder and educator who knows how to meet people where they are, patiently explain SOX concepts, and build capability across teams. You balance technical rigor with pragmatism, designing controls that are both effective and sustainable.
Finally, you have the gravitas and communication skills to operate at the executive level, presenting complex issues clearly and building confidence with the Board, auditors, and leadership team.
This is a high-impact opportunity to shape and mature our compliance program. If you're a SOX expert who thrives on technical complexity, excels at driving program excellence, and wants to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.
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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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