About this role
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. 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 leadership and process-building.
Responsibilities:
• Own all RTB and Compliance reporting (tax, airports, audit requests, etc.), ensuring accuracy, completeness, and operational reliability
• 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
• 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
• Chi