Senior Associate, Finance & Strategy - Deal Desk

The posting, as DoorDash wrote it

About the Team

The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for those who can model the future and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution. On a typical day, you may extract insights from data, build business cases for new products, and work to design and launch pilots. You'll help support some of the most impactful programs we undertake as a company.

About the Role

This role provides a unique opportunity to build finance business partnership and strategy at a hyper-growth company. We are looking for a Senior Associate who can build financial models from scratch and is eager to join a fast paced team, supporting our Deal Desk team's partnership with Sales (Enterprise/Mid-Market and SMB) on Go-To-Market (GTM) support for new restaurant merchant deals, renegotiations and other commercial agreements across Marketplace, Commerce Platform and emerging lines of business. You will partner with teams across the business including Business Development, Sales, Account Managers, Strategy & Operations, Product GMs, Accounting and Finance to support strategic business and financial decisions. You will build and maintain financial models and help inform commercial recommendations. You will also support initiatives spanning pipeline and portfolio performance improvement, pricing, policy, and Go-To-Market (GTM) focused analyses.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Help support and scale our restaurant vertical
• Analyze operational/financial data, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities
• Build and maintain models and analyses to balance growth vs. profitability
• Work with cross-functional partners to support new processes and policies

We’re excited about you because…

• 4+ years of strategic finance, corporate finance, or investment banking experience in a high-growth technology sector
• Ability to influence cross-functional partners at all levels
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by F&S teams throughout the company
• Experience with leveraging AI tooling to improve processes
• Basic SQL proficiency (or strong willingness to learn)

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

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Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Metaview.

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