Associate, Finance & Strategy G&A

Our extremely impactful G&A + Headcount Finance & Strategy Team powers some of the most important and foundational decisions for DoorDash globally, from finance, legal, public policy, and talent requisition to country, and business line launches. We support business leaders making cost-effective investments on a daily basis by building financial models to evaluate trade-offs, developing strategies for successful execution, and building KPIs to measure progress. As DoorDash became public while hyper-growing to new businesses and countries, our team is also the backbone for building and improving many core company-wide processes, including headcount planning, compensation and benefit design for the total company. 

This role will be an addition to the team to expand the breadth and depth of our support to the business leaders. In this role, you will wear multiple hats by providing leadership with recommendations on opportunities to scale efficiently, streamlining processes to ensure cross-functional alignment, and managing budgets to meet company goals. We’re looking to hire strategic thinkers who can model the future, solve complex problems, and collaborate effectively to help carry projects from conception through execution. If you are excited about this, we want to hear from you. 

• Drive decision-making: proactively rationalize G&A spend, evaluate the trade-offs of options, and provide financially sound recommendations to business leaders. 
• Forecasting: Once decisions are made, provide accurate forecasts to give guidance on dollar impact on P&L, balance sheet and cash flow. 
• Report & Drive accountability: Define KPIs, build dashboards and reports to provide actionable insights on spends.
• Own the quarterly / annual budgeting process and perform monthly expense and headcount analysis for all G&A business partners. Partner with the accounting team during financial close to align completeness and accuracy from both reporting and forecasts.
• Own total company areas such as headcount and/or benefits and provide and provide reporting for senior leadership to enable strategic decisions. 
• Identify and lead improvement initiatives to ensure cross-functional alignment and increase efficiency.

• 2+ years of financial planning and analysis experience with a proven track record of proactively taking initiatives and driving business results.
• Strong ability to turn data into actionable insights & influence decision-making by senior leadership around the world.
• Willingness to continuously improve budget and reporting processes to …