Senior Financial Insights Analyst

Remote · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

The Senior Financial Insights Analyst sits at the center of Instacart's Finance organization, with a mandate to identify and close areas of P&L leakage through rigorous financial and transactional data analysis and compelling narratives that drive action.
The team works through invoice challenges with retailers and serves as experts in the broader Instacart financial ecosystem.
This is a highly visible, high-impact role for someone who is relentlessly optimistic, eager to learn, and excited about combining deep financial expertise with AI and automation tools.

P&L leakage is identified and closed through rigorous analysis of Instacart's financial and transactional data.
AI and automation tools are used to build and maintain alerting capabilities that surface issues in real time.
An expert-level understanding of Instacart's marketplace data, reporting capabilities, and invoicing processes is developed and applied.
Invoice challenges are diagnosed, retailer partnerships are leveraged to resolve them, and financial outcomes improve as a result.
Complex datasets from multiple systems are connected and analyzed using advanced SQL, Excel or Google Sheets, and Python.
Findings are synthesized into clear, visually compelling narratives and presented to internal and external stakeholders via Google Slides or PowerPoint.
Strong stakeholder relationships are maintained internally and externally.
Time is continuously prioritized toward the highest-impact problems, with ambiguous challenges deconstructed into efficient, high-quality approaches to resolution.

5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Management Consulting supporting commercial deals or growth initiatives in technology, e-commerce, marketplace, logistics, or retail
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience)
Strong analytical and technical skills; a strong understanding of data and how to structure it to get at the answers we need efficiently
Ability to craft compelling narratives and identify the insights that are most impactful in answering the key questions
Ability to combine insights into an easy to understand, visually appealing story that helps convince retailers to take action
Ability to connect large data sets from multiple systems and establish real-time alerting capabilities
Experience with Powerpoint / Google Sides
Experience writing advanced SQL queries
Ability to deal with ambiguity; the ability to quickly deconstruct a problem into its most important components, have a good sense of where digging deeper will likely yield results, and coming up with an efficient and high quality approach to solving the problem

2+ years of experience applying AI solutions to a specific business vertical such as e-commerce, FinTech, or two- or three-sided marketplaces
Experience with marketplace or retailer/CPG partnerships, multi-sided platform economics, and/or merchant POS data analysis
Hands-on collaboration with Sales or Account Management on deal terms and partner economics
Experience in Investment Banking or Consulting

Instacart is a Flex First team offering employees the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether from home, an office, or a coffee shop.