Posted on 
Jan 14, 2025

Senior Principal Corporate Finance Strategic Initiatives Analyst

Boston
CarGurus
CarGurus
CarGurus
Public
1001-5000
Consumer Products & Tech

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination. 

Job Description

Role overview

The FP&A team is looking to hire a highly motivated individual to help shape the future of CarGurus. This individual will be responsible for driving results by instilling a new ROI driven decision framework through the development of initiative business cases and by becoming the go-to person on capital allocation related topics. You will be leading key cross-functional initiatives, driving decision-making and results through detailed ad hoc financial analysis and modeling and providing thought leadership to counterparts within the organization. 

You will work both independently and with peers on high-priority strategic projects with regular opportunities to communicate and work with the Senior Leadership team.

This position reports into the FP&A function but works with leaders from across the company. You will be providing leadership to cross-functional teams by developing new initiative cost benefit analysis as well as driving capital allocation reporting, insights and recommendations.

What you'll do

  • Create and rigorously assess business cases and stress test against market and customer needs. Outline financial returns to aid in capital allocation decisions.
  • Act as an internal ‘financial consultant’ by assisting company leaders to assess their capital allocations, build robust analytics and provide influencing recommendations.
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models to analyze current and future financial performance, supporting key business decisions and investment strategies.
  • Create and maintain a robust capital allocation framework, reporting, and tracking
  • Monitor and analyze financial performance across products, identifying key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Provide financial thought partnership to leadership and business partners, and work on projects that identify and harness growth and cost opportunities.
  • Synthesize and present findings to Senior Leadership and organizational team members, as necessary.
  • Support forecasting, annual budgeting, and 3-year long term strategy and financial plans to deliver organic growth, margin, and cash in line with business expectations.
  • Prepare detailed ad hoc analysis in preparation for financial reviews.
  • Ability to manage multiple high priorities and high visibility deliverables
  • Excellent Executive presentation, facilitation, and communication skills
  • Ability to work independently while demonstrating technical and cross functional flexibility to adapt to varying work dynamics dependent upon project needs.
  • Lead internal process scope, launch & execution of internal business cases and robust capital allocation across the organization.
  • Mentor junior team members to support business case creation, capital allocation analysis, and analytical framework development.
  • Promote an open, collaborative environment built on trust to foster positive teamwork.
  • Empower and lead teams of cross-functional resources in a matrixed organization with contending priorities, with or without direct authority or reporting relationships.

What you'll bring

  • 7-10 years of relevant professional experience in FP&A, strategy, and/or consulting
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business or related field.
  • Experience rolling out or supporting capital allocations across an organization strongly preferred
  • Experience working for a large public company strongly preferred; consulting or banking background is a plus
  • Business judgment, dynamic analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis, organizational skills, and information synthesizing capabilities.
  • Exceptional quantitative and financial modeling with high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, G-Suite applications; Adaptive Insights and NetSuite experience a plus.
  • Ability to work in Excel with unstructured data sets to glean insights.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications – clear and concise with the ability to present in formal and informal settings to influence teams, as well as Executive partners
  • Strategic / analytical approach with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
  • Demonstrated success working closely with Senior Leadership, and experience influencing across the organization
  • Apply strength in performing sophisticated analyses and the ability to present data and recommendations to a variety of audiences throughout an organization.
  • Self-starter who is self-directed, highly motivated, intellectually curious and proactive.

 

Role overview

The FP&A team is looking to hire a highly motivated individual to help shape the future of CarGurus. This individual will be responsible for driving results by instilling a new ROI driven decision framework through the development of initiative business cases and by becoming the go-to person on capital allocation related topics. You will be leading key cross-functional initiatives, driving decision-making and results through detailed ad hoc financial analysis and modeling and providing thought leadership to counterparts within the organization. 

You will work both independently and with peers on high-priority strategic projects with regular opportunities to communicate and work with the Senior Leadership team.

This position reports into the FP&A function but works with leaders from across the company. You will be providing leadership to cross-functional teams by developing new initiative cost benefit analysis as well as driving capital allocation reporting, insights and recommendations.

What you'll do

  • Create and rigorously assess business cases and stress test against market and customer needs. Outline financial returns to aid in capital allocation decisions.
  • Act as an internal ‘financial consultant’ by assisting company leaders to assess their capital allocations, build robust analytics and provide influencing recommendations.
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models to analyze current and future financial performance, supporting key business decisions and investment strategies.
  • Create and maintain a robust capital allocation framework, reporting, and tracking
  • Monitor and analyze financial performance across products, identifying key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Provide financial thought partnership to leadership and business partners, and work on projects that identify and harness growth and cost opportunities.
  • Synthesize and present findings to Senior Leadership and organizational team members, as necessary.
  • Support forecasting, annual budgeting, and 3-year long term strategy and financial plans to deliver organic growth, margin, and cash in line with business expectations.
  • Prepare detailed ad hoc analysis in preparation for financial reviews.
  • Ability to manage multiple high priorities and high visibility deliverables
  • Excellent Executive presentation, facilitation, and communication skills
  • Ability to work independently while demonstrating technical and cross functional flexibility to adapt to varying work dynamics dependent upon project needs.
  • Lead internal process scope, launch & execution of internal business cases and robust capital allocation across the organization.
  • Mentor junior team members to support business case creation, capital allocation analysis, and analytical framework development.
  • Promote an open, collaborative environment built on trust to foster positive teamwork.
  • Empower and lead teams of cross-functional resources in a matrixed organization with contending priorities, with or without direct authority or reporting relationships.

What you'll bring

  • 7-10 years of relevant professional experience in FP&A, strategy, and/or consulting
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business or related field.
  • Experience rolling out or supporting capital allocations across an organization strongly preferred
  • Experience working for a large public company strongly preferred; consulting or banking background is a plus
  • Business judgment, dynamic analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis, organizational skills, and information synthesizing capabilities.
  • Exceptional quantitative and financial modeling with high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, G-Suite applications; Adaptive Insights and NetSuite experience a plus.
  • Ability to work in Excel with unstructured data sets to glean insights.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications – clear and concise with the ability to present in formal and informal settings to influence teams, as well as Executive partners
  • Strategic / analytical approach with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
  • Demonstrated success working closely with Senior Leadership, and experience influencing across the organization
  • Apply strength in performing sophisticated analyses and the ability to present data and recommendations to a variety of audiences throughout an organization.
  • Self-starter who is self-directed, highly motivated, intellectually curious and proactive.

 

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