Senior Analyst, Financial Risk Management

About the Team

Financial Risk Management is the team responsible for understanding, analyzing and responding to risk events within the finance function. Its mandate is to partner with the business to proactively manage risk and maintain an effective and efficient control environment over financial risks. Whenever change occurs, there is risk; in order to respond to the ever-changing nature of Uber, a focus on risk is required to ensure we are compliant with statutory requirements and understand the impact of risk and use it to perform informed decision making.

About the Role

The Senior Analyst, Financial Risk Management will be focused on coordinating and building a world class financial risk management program, through the strategic design and implementation of a financial controls program to respond to risk across existing and emerging products at Uber, specifically related to Revenue and Partner Payments. The successful applicant will work closely with various product teams and business process owners, Uber’s Internal Audit team and external auditors to manage financial risk by facilitating an effective and efficient control environment.

What You’ll Do

• Work with control owners to evaluate, design, develop and implement effective and efficient financial controls
• Work with process owners/business functions to improve the efficiency of the control environment through implementation of automation or process improvement.
• Build and maintain flowcharts, narratives and control documentation for key financial processes, specifically related to the Revenue and Partner Payments pillars.
• Build and maintain relationships across Finance and the wider business, Internal Audit, external audit and other external stakeholders to drive effective financial risk management.
• Understand and manage existing and emerging risks through early detection and adopt preventative measures to manage them.
• Work closely with the FRM IT teams to bridge gaps between IT controls and business controls, including automated controls and appropriate system scoping efforts (ITGC).
• Provide control related support and training for the team to help mitigate financial risk through fostering an effective controls environment.
• Implement new processes and controls in response to changes to the business environment, such as: new product introduction, system enhancements, acquisitions, internal process changes and reorganization.
• Work closely with our external auditors to ensure the controls are successfully positioned under SOX compliance.
• Oversee the controls testing provided by 3rd party service providers over the in-scope products as required through management’s testing and work with the business partners to timely address the identified control gaps.

What You’ll Need/Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Accounting, Finance or Economics preferred)
• Minimum of 4-6 years of audit (internal or external), controls, compliance or risk management experience
• Strong organization skills with an ability to plan and perform multiple tasks
• Ability to analyze complex processes to identify potential financial, operational, systems and compliance risks across major finance cycles
• Ability to effectively communicate in written and verbal form across a wide array of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently
• Ability to thrive in environments of uncertainty

Preferred Qualifications

• Big 4 accounting firm, management consulting, and/or internet/ technology industry experience
• CPA/CA/CIA/CFA/CISSP/CISM
• Demonstrated project management experience (PM certification a plus)
• Experience managing, monitoring and remediating deficient financial controls, specific to Revenue (including ASC 606) and Partner Payments.
• Process management experience, including process redesign and optimization
• Working technical knowledge of US GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, SOX requirements, including PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5
• Experience with Oracle or another large-scale ERP
• SQL knowledge a plus

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $122,000 per year - USD $135,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.