Deliveroo Hiring for Finance & Strategy Director Job at Dubai Full Time

Finance and Strategy Director

About the Department

The Finance and Strategy team’s core mission is to help Deliveroo make more effective decisions. We aim to build long term company value, and we achieve this by setting company strategy, facilitating world-class execution, understanding and sharing the drivers of our business, delivering accurate financial results, all while managing risks and keeping an eye out for opportunities. Finally, it’s critical that we continually foster and evolve a team culture to allow for each team member to thrive and grow.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be leading Deliveroo’s Finance & Strategy team. You’ll be helping manage critical initiatives, such as Deliveroo’s Plus subscription program, setting the company’s pricing strategy around customer service and delivery fees, developing customer acquisition mechanics in new customer promotions and CRM, optimising marketing investments and much more. You’ll also work cross-functionally with in-country leadership as well as across the other sides of the marketplace with Restaurant and Riders.

Key activities:

• Partner with the senior leadership to help set the strategic direction and activities centrally and across markets
• Responsibility to manage marketing budgets, forecasts, reporting and supporting strategic initiatives.
• Own key financial processes in annual budget setting, financial modelling for business development and providing technical financial guidance for Consumer investments.
• Leverage your commercial experience and knowledge to identify areas of strategic interest and frame approaches to tackle them
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders in the business to develop, track and analyse performance
• Ensure linkage to central functions in execution of country initiatives, deployment of new products/capabilities and alignment with company-wide missions
• Drive key resource allocation discussions
• Lead your team to discover, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Recruit top finance talent and develop team members into a world class finance and strategy organisation
• Develop and implement world class finance processes and P&L discipline across the organisation

What we are looking for:

• At least 10+ years experience in increasing levels of responsibility through commercial finance, FP&A and business strategy functions
• Demonstrated ability to create value and lead decision making in ambitious, entrepreneurial, and high-pace environments
• Strong core financial acumen and technical finance skill set; ability to provide guidance to the business in order to optimise its investments and make sound financial decisions helping accelerate profitability
• Proven excellence in leadership capacity; and developing top tier finance organisations and processes
• An understanding of working in a global, matrix organisation
• Successful track record operating, partnering with and influencing exec-level stakeholders
• Excel at solving unstructured problems
• Able to lead cross-functional teams without authority
• Ability to prioritise work, project manage and be very detail oriented
• Superior oral and written communication skills required; ability to verbally communicate technical finance components to non-financial stakeholders. Ability to structure influential and highly effective written documents
• A background in operational FP&A/ Corporate Finance/ Business Development Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/ Accounting/ Economics or equivalent

Additional preferences:

• Strong knowledge of the restaurant industry or in any customer-obsessed business
• Experience with subscription-based business models or products
• Experience scaling a technology platform to mass adoption and profitability
• MS/MBA from top-tier university; professional credentials in finance/accounting (CPA, CFA) a plus

We are a young company with dynamic growth, so you must be prepared to work hard and show continued commitment and dedication to the business.

Why Deliveroo?

Why Deliveroo? When you first think about Deliveroo, you probably think of getting great food to your house in less than half an hour. Awesome right? But behind the scenes is the real story. This story is one of high growth, huge challenges and an enormous opportunity ahead of us. We want to be the definitive food company – the app you go to any time you have a hunger pang. We are transforming the way people think about food. We’re a technology driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world, so come and join us for the ride.

Benefits and Diversity

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are – your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups in an incredibly exciting space.