Senior Financial Data Analyst (Manager)

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 stake