Top Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Mental health benefits
Unlimited paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking, or management consulting with demonstrated financial modeling excellence
- Strong business acumen with ability to connect financial metrics to underlying business drivers and competitive dynamics
- Track record of translating complex quantitative analysis into strategic recommendations that influenced senior leadership decisions
- Experience building financial models from scratch, P&Ls, cash flow projections, scenario analyses, sensitivity tables
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: structuring loosely-defined problems, making defensible assumptions, and driving to decisions with imperfect information
- Excellent communication skills with ability to tailor messaging for different audiences, from technical finance teams to executive leadership
- Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative field
- 2+ years in investment banking, private equity, or equity research with experience modeling marketplace or technology businesses
- MBA or CFA certification
- Experience with SQL, Tableau, Looker, or similar analytical tools for hands-on data analysis
- Deep familiarity with rideshare, mobility, or marketplace business models
- Established framework for competitive intelligence, tracking competitor disclosures, reverse-engineering metrics, synthesizing market trends
- Experience supporting long-range planning processes at high-growth technology companies
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Finance Manager to support our Strategic Finance team
- The ideal candidate will bring natural curiosity, financial rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset to the team driving financial analysis in support of strategic decision making at Lyft
- This finance partner will have the opportunity to work in a team that will support, inform and influence decisions that can have a real impact on the P&L and can truly help shape Lyft’s future
- Partner with the Sr. Manager of Strategic Finance to identify growth opportunities and develop financial frameworks to inform operational and management decisions, support Lyft's long-range plan and annual operating plan, and analyze growth scenarios across core Rideshare business and emerging mobility products
- Build and maintain sophisticated financial models that provide insights in competitive position, including unit economics, market share dynamics, and other growth KPIs
- Translate complex marketplace financial information into actionable insights for senior leadership, supporting critical decisions on pricing, geographic expansion, and product investments
- Conduct deep-dive analyses on business performance of customer retention, frequency, volume, demand, supply, and pressure test assumptions underlying strategic initiatives
- Lead financial analysis for ad-hoc strategic projects and executive requests, often under tight timelines and with incomplete information
- Prepare executive-ready presentations that distill sophisticated financial analysis into clear recommendations for the leadership team
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health 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
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Not the right fit? Search for Strategic Finance Manager jobs in Toronto
About Lyft
Ground Passenger Transportation
10,000+
Whether it’s an everyday commute or a journey that changes everything, Lyft is driven by our purpose: to serve and connect. In 2012, Lyft was founded as one of the first ridesharing communities in the United States. Now, millions of drivers have chosen to earn on billions of rides. Lyft offers rideshare, bikes, and scooters all in one app — for a more connected world, with transportation for everyone.
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Top Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Mental health benefits
Unlimited paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking, or management consulting with demonstrated financial modeling excellence
- Strong business acumen with ability to connect financial metrics to underlying business drivers and competitive dynamics
- Track record of translating complex quantitative analysis into strategic recommendations that influenced senior leadership decisions
- Experience building financial models from scratch, P&Ls, cash flow projections, scenario analyses, sensitivity tables
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: structuring loosely-defined problems, making defensible assumptions, and driving to decisions with imperfect information
- Excellent communication skills with ability to tailor messaging for different audiences, from technical finance teams to executive leadership
- Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative field
- 2+ years in investment banking, private equity, or equity research with experience modeling marketplace or technology businesses
- MBA or CFA certification
- Experience with SQL, Tableau, Looker, or similar analytical tools for hands-on data analysis
- Deep familiarity with rideshare, mobility, or marketplace business models
- Established framework for competitive intelligence, tracking competitor disclosures, reverse-engineering metrics, synthesizing market trends
- Experience supporting long-range planning processes at high-growth technology companies
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Finance Manager to support our Strategic Finance team
- The ideal candidate will bring natural curiosity, financial rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset to the team driving financial analysis in support of strategic decision making at Lyft
- This finance partner will have the opportunity to work in a team that will support, inform and influence decisions that can have a real impact on the P&L and can truly help shape Lyft’s future
- Partner with the Sr. Manager of Strategic Finance to identify growth opportunities and develop financial frameworks to inform operational and management decisions, support Lyft's long-range plan and annual operating plan, and analyze growth scenarios across core Rideshare business and emerging mobility products
- Build and maintain sophisticated financial models that provide insights in competitive position, including unit economics, market share dynamics, and other growth KPIs
- Translate complex marketplace financial information into actionable insights for senior leadership, supporting critical decisions on pricing, geographic expansion, and product investments
- Conduct deep-dive analyses on business performance of customer retention, frequency, volume, demand, supply, and pressure test assumptions underlying strategic initiatives
- Lead financial analysis for ad-hoc strategic projects and executive requests, often under tight timelines and with incomplete information
- Prepare executive-ready presentations that distill sophisticated financial analysis into clear recommendations for the leadership team
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health 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
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Not the right fit? Search for Strategic Finance Manager jobs in Toronto
About Lyft
Ground Passenger Transportation
10,000+
Whether it’s an everyday commute or a journey that changes everything, Lyft is driven by our purpose: to serve and connect. In 2012, Lyft was founded as one of the first ridesharing communities in the United States. Now, millions of drivers have chosen to earn on billions of rides. Lyft offers rideshare, bikes, and scooters all in one app — for a more connected world, with transportation for everyone.