Analyst I, Finance

at Grubhub Holdings, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Grubhub Holdings Inc. seeks a Analyst I, Finance in Chicago. IL.

Duties:

• Develop an understanding of the business and use that understanding to provide visibility into Grubhub’s financial and operational performance.
• Partner with various teams, working to dig into trends, surface value-creating opportunities and help figure out how to implement them.
• Help drive departmental FP&A activities - budgeting/forecasting, reporting and variance analyses.
• Build and implement financial models to forecast business units as part of the Finance team’s weekly, monthly, and annual planning cycles.
• Develop and monitor KPIs and business drivers, highlighting trends and analyzing underlying causes of forecast variances.
• Using SQL, leverage large, potentially messy data sets to derive insights and reporting that will drive better business decisions.
• Structure and analyze ambiguous problems, creating quantifiable answers to surface business recommendations.
• Work cross-functionally within Finance - FP&A/data science/analytics - and collaborate with stakeholders from across the organization including Logistics, Market Growth, and Tech to ensure teams are prepared to execute on company initiatives and handle expected volume.
• Find data nuggets, trends and other analytical goodies that help us grow faster and generate more profit for the company.
• Own and run our order forecasting process from start to end.
• Daily, weekly, monthly and annual order forecasting used by the business to plan staffing, marketing, and all operations.
• Build forecast into forecasting software, report out weekly to Operations and Care teams to inform their resourcing.
• Report daily performance vs forecast to broader finance team, including the CFO.
• Analyze variances to forecast via deep dives into data; use data to inform opportunities / strategies for growing the business.
• Own cohort modeling, understanding diner behavior, seasonality, external and internal influences on the business.

Telecommuting permitted within MSA.       

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Analytics or related quantitative field and 1 year of experience as a Data Analyst, Financial Analyst, or related role.

Requires 1 years of experience in the following skills:

• Ability to synthesize complex statistical and financial models and datasets for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Using advanced Microsoft Excel (e.g. pivot tables, index matches, data cleaning, and model building).
• Develop cross-functional relationships and communicate with senior leadership.

40 hours/week, $82,000 per year.  Must also have authority to work permanently in the U.S. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply https://www.jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref #23209.