Senior Financial Data Analyst (Manager)

<p>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.</p> <p>Lyft is hiring a Senior Financial Data Analyst to lead the Reporting sub-team within Finance Data &amp; 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.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own all RTB and Compliance reporting (tax, airports, audit requests, etc.), ensuring accuracy, completeness, and operational reliability</li> <li>Directly <strong>manage a team of entry-level and mid-level analysts</strong>, including hiring, performance reviews, and career development</li> <li>Build and maintain process documentation, checklists, and operational playbooks that make reporting workflows repeatable and resilient</li> <li>Receive and operationalize reports stabilized by Finance Data Products, integrating them into day-to-day RTB reporting operations</li> <li>Reduce fire-drill, ad-hoc response patterns by replacing them with documented, recurring workflows and automation</li> <li>Identify and drive automation opportunities across RTB reporting processes to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and further reduce ad-hoc work</li> <li>Own primary stakeholder relationships for RTB work, serving as the go-to point of contact across teams</li> <li>Lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives with significant autonomy — from problem definition through execution — proactively communicating progress and risks to stakeholders and management</li> <li>Proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement within RTB reporting and drive initiatives to address them</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Experience:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>BA/BS with 5+ years of experience in finance, accounting, business, consulting, or analytics</li> <li>Advanced proficiency in SQL, with 5+ years of experience querying and analyzing large, complex data sets</li> <li>Experience owning recurring, high-stakes reporting processes (tax, regulatory, audit, or similar) in a fast-paced environment</li> <li>Prior formal people-management experience required — including hiring, performance reviews, and career development.</li> <li&gt