# Finance Analyst

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Mexico City
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This Finance Analyst role will support Lyft's Rideshare business, helping shape strategy, forecast performance, and guide critical decisions that impact millions of riders and drivers every day.

## Responsibilities:

- Develop, maintain and enhance financial models to assess performance, growth opportunities, and operational efficiency.

- Lead the weekly Actuals vs. Forecast process, identifying variances and updating Rest of Quarter projections to keep leadership informed of our trajectory.

- Collaborate with teams across Operations and Product, to connect financial outcomes with business levers.

- Enhance forecasting accuracy and reporting efficiency through automation and scalable tools.

- Develop sustainable financial data management/sourcing practices.

- Deliver clear, actionable insights through dashboards, reports, and executive presentations.

- Ensure accurate and transparent financial reporting through collaboration with Accounting and Data teams.

- Support continuous improvement across FP&A systems and processes.

- Collaborate with the Accounting team on month-end and quarter-end processes.

## Experience:

- A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Finance) with at least 2-3 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably in a dynamic and challenging environment.

- Demonstrated ability to develop complex financial models, with excellent quantitative analysis and forecasting skills.

- Strong understanding of accounting principles, accrual methodologies & reconciliations.

- Ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights that guide executive-level decision-making.

- Proven capability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

- Comfort in dealing with ambiguity and the ability to derive insights from incomplete information.

- A detail-oriented, highly organised self-starter with the ability to manage overlapping tasks and frequent priority changes.

- Maintain a deep understanding of our finance processes and actively contribute to improving them, developing sustainable data management practices that allow the team to move fast.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.

- Proficiency in SQL and ERP systems, such as Oracle or Anaplan, is preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- financial planning
- analysis
- financial modeling
- quantitative analysis
- forecasting
- accounting principles
- SQL
- ERP systems

### Nice to have
- Oracle
- Anaplan

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