Manager, Strategic Finance

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

We are looking for a Finance Manager to support our Global Growth & Strategic Planning team. This role will be located in our Toronto office. 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.

• →Long-range plan: Build and own a sophisticated, multi-year, full company model that quantifies Lyft's financial potential, and serve as the connective tissue between corporate strategy and LOB P&L owners.  Bridge the tops-down model to the bottoms-up plans that each business unit develops.  Surface the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs. 
• →Annual plan: Translate the Long-Range Plan into Annual Plan targets by line of business, construct a defensible long-range plan to annual plan bridge, and assist in creating durable line of business accountability against external financial commitments.
• →Competitive intelligence: Produce strategic intelligence briefs following competitor earnings or other announcements.  Reverse-engineering metrics to produce shadow P&Ls while integrating sell-side investment research.  Creating forward-looking financial metrics and illuminating actionable insights for the leadership team.
• →Ad hoc analysis: 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

• 5+ years in investment banking, management consulting, strategic finance, or corporate finance, with demonstrated financial modeling excellence
• Strong business acumen with ability to connect financial metrics to underlying business drivers and competitive dynamics
• 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
• Preferred
• 2+ years in equity research, consulting, investment banking, or private equity with experience building and maintaining complex financial models. 
• MBA or CFA designation
• 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 companies