Senior Financial Analyst, Business Planning - Product and Operations

The Zoox Finance team is responsible for managing multiple aspects of our business, including maintaining short and long-term financial models, formulating financial statements and reports, implementing tools and processes, financial analysis of strategic initiatives, and much more.

As a Financial Analyst supporting the Product and Operations functions, you will partner directly with organizations that drive commercialization and scaling of the Zoox ridehail service across all geofences. You will manage short and long-term financial planning cycles and financial and operational metric reviews to ensure efficient resource allocation. This will require a deep understanding of your business partners’ operations and spend drivers; establishing strong working relationships with executives, managers, and individual contributors across multiple departments; and utilizing enterprise systems and tools to establish robust financial models and dashboards. The goal for this role is to drive decision-making through timely and actionable financial insights.

A successful candidate should be willing and able to work through ambiguity, roll up your sleeves to understand the financial needs of your business partners, and utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to optimize capital utilization.

In this role you will:

• Own long-range, annual, and mid-year financial/operational planning for several key areas of the business including: financial modeling, strategic alternative analyses, and headcount planning
• Develop city-level financial models for commercial operations and drive plans for margin improvement as Zoox scales
• Manage close activities for your business partners, including: PO and invoice accruals, allocations, and variance analysis
• Analyze large financial datasets from Anaplan, SAP S4, SAP Ariba, and other internal data systems to drive actionable insights
• Support implementation of systems required for commercial operations through design, build, testing, and cutover phases
• Partner with other support organizations (PMO, Strategy, etc) to develop and recommend future operational scenarios

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree, preferably in a Finance, Accounting, Data Science or a quantitative field
• 8+ years experience in an FP&A or similarly analytical role such as consulting
• 4+ years of direct experience building models, forecast input templates, dashboards, and business process development with Anaplan or other financial planning software
• Experience with annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, capital budgeting, and long-term strategic planning
• Experience working directly with best-in-class planning and reporting tools (Anaplan, OneStream, Looker, etc)
• Highly analytical, with proven ability to synthesize and analyze large amounts of data to develop clear insights and recommendations
• Ability to develop strong, cross-functional working relationships across the finance team and beyond