Senior Financial Data Analyst (Manager)

Job description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Lyft is hiring a Senior Financial Data Analyst to lead the Reporting sub-team within Finance Data & Insights, including people management of a small team of analysts. This sub-team is core to ensuring all key Run the Business (RTB) financial reports are complete, accurate, and operationally reliable on a day-to-day basis. The mandate is two-fold: build repeatable systems, playbooks, and documented workflows that reduce reactive work, and own the primary stakeholder relationships for RTB work across teams. This is a high-visibility role that combines hands-on ownership of critical reporting with team direct people leadership and process-building.

Responsibilities:

• Own all RTB and Compliance reporting (tax, airports, audit requests, etc.), ensuring accuracy, completeness, and operational reliability

• Directly manage a team of entry-level and mid-level analysts, including hiring, performance reviews, and career development

• Build and maintain process documentation, checklists, and operational playbooks that make reporting workflows repeatable and resilient

• Receive and operationalize reports stabilized by Finance Data Products, integrating them into day-to-day RTB reporting operations

• Reduce fire-drill, ad-hoc response patterns by replacing them with documented, recurring workflows and automation

• Identify and drive automation opportunities across RTB reporting processes to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and further reduce ad-hoc work

• Own primary stakeholder relationships for RTB work, serving as the go-to point of contact across teams

• Lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives with significant autonomy — from problem definition through execution — proactively communicating progress and risks to stakeholders and management

• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement within RTB reporting and drive initiatives to address them

Experience:

• BA/BS with 5+ years of experience in finance, accounting, business, consulting, or analytics

• Advanced proficiency in SQL, with 5+ years of experience querying and analyzing large, complex data sets

• Experience owning recurring, high-stakes reporting processes (tax, regulatory, audit, or similar) in a fast-paced environment

• Prior formal people-management experience required — including hiring, performance reviews, and career development.

• Proven ability to build process documentation, playbooks, and operational workflows that scale

• Experience identifying and implementing automation to reduce manual, ad-hoc work in reporting processes

• Strong experience with dashboarding/BI tools (e.g., Tableau); familiarity with data warehousing concepts and modern data stacks

• Demonstrated ability to develop and mentor junior team members

• Strong track record of managing stakeholder relationships and leading cross-functional initiatives independently

• Familiarity with Github, Terminal, and DBMS development a plus

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits

• Mental health benefits

• Family building benefits

• Child care and pet benefits

• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account

• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future

• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service

• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.

• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to wo

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