Finance and Strategy Associate - Tech

Job Description

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation, and growth drives everything we do. Our Finance team shapes the company's future by directing capital to high-impact investments, developing robust financial strategies, and ensuring we deliver long-term value while pursuing our ambitious mission.

We’re looking for a Finance & Strategy Associate to join our London team. In this role, you’ll help us optimise decision-making within our Technology function, ensuring our investments drive profitable growth and long-term value.

Get to know our Finance team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be joining the Technology Finance & Strategy team. We partner closely with our tech leaders to solve difficult problems, providing the analytical rigour needed to understand the P&L impact of every product and engineering decision.

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:

• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a key advisor to stakeholders up to VP level, providing proactive analysis to support high-stakes technical and commercial decisions.

• Financial Planning & Control: Play a lead role in the budgeting and resource planning processes, tracking spend against the annual plan while identifying risks and opportunities.

• Investment Governance: Manage the internal development capitalisation process, collaborating with Tech and Finance counterparts to ensure full regulatory compliance.

• Performance Reporting: Own monthly technology cost reporting and commentary, translating complex data into actionable insights for senior management.

• Process Automation: Drive continuous improvement by automating reporting tools and investment frameworks to scale our financial operations.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:

• Strategic Analytical Background: Significant experience in an analytical, strategic, or commercial role, ideally within the Technology, SaaS, or Telecoms sectors.

• Financial Qualification: You are a Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or hold an MBA with a strong grasp of financial fundamentals.

• Advanced Modelling: High proficiency in GSheet/Excel with a proven ability to build complex financial models and manipulate large data sets.

• Stakeholder Influence: A clear and confident communicator with a proven ability to influence senior leadership and work collaboratively across teams.

• Commercial Mindset: A pragmatic approach to problem-solving, comfortable with ambiguity and able to work accurately in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Why Join Us?

At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:

🔧 Make a visible impact every day Your work directly improves experiences for customers, partners and riders.

🌱 Learn fast in an entrepreneurial environment Work close to the market with autonomy, pace and real responsibility.

🧠 Build a career, not just a role Stretch yourself, develop new skills and grow as the business evolves.

🌎 Deliver together in an inclusive culture Collaborative, values-driven teams that support how you work best.

We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Find more about how we hire here.

Our Global Structure

Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.

We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.

If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!