Strategic Finance Lead - Uber Fintech & Payments

About the Role

As the Strategic Finance Lead for UPMX, you will be the main point of contact for the Fintech's regulated vehicle in the country for all matters related to Financial Information, Treasury, Accounting, Payments Processing and Uber Money operations. You'll partner closely with Tax Reporting, Tax, several Accounting teams, Legal, Core Payments, Treasury, BuyerOps and key vendors to ensure regulatory compliance within budgeted costs.

What you'll do:

1. Strategy and execution: Partner closely with the CEO to shape the entity's strategy and priorities, proactively identify risks, design practical solutions, and drive disciplined execution to deliver measurable results, including complex projects.
2. Regulatory reports, obligations and audits: Ensure that financial and operational regulatory reports, obligations (ex. Annual external financial audit, capital, safeguarding, investment requirements, etc) and audit requests are met in due time and form. You'll need to execute when necessary, continuously and proactively working with cross-functional teams and helping your team remove blockers to deliver.
3. Financial statements: Validate and approve the entity's financial statements and present them in various forums, as required.
4. Processes, risks and controls: Owner of UPMX's financial and operational processes, risks and controls. Coordinate the submission of evidence materials to meet Financial Risk Controls of the entity + lead the annual exercise to update processes, risks and controls
5. New products: Validate and oversee product launches that may impact the entity's operations, financial performance, or regulatory reporting, ensuring full compliance is maintained at all times.
6. Team management: Manage a team of 3-6 people

Basic Qualifications

1. 10+ years of progressive professional experience in finance or accounting
2. Prior experience working in regulated industries (Banks or Fintechs) or willingness to engage in regulatory conversations internally and externally i.e. be familiar with relevant legislation
3. Deep understanding of the Payments ecosystem and digital wallets
4. Strong verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
5. Budget management

Preferred Qualifications

1. Excellent judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
2. Problem-solving - Able to solve high-complexity problems by using logic, common sense and data not only by identifying the root cause of a problem but also being capable of providing actionable insights and mitigation plans
3. Ability to navigate cross-functional stakeholder relationships
4. Familiar with the definition of processes and how systems work and interact with each other (high level)
5. Ambition and enthusiasm to seek opportunities to build value
6. Self-motivated with the ability to work independently
7. Intermediate SQL proficiency, preferred

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.