Finance & Strategy Associate

Job Description

Finance & Strategy Associate

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 Milan team. In this role, you’ll act as a high-impact business partner, using financial modelling and strategic analysis to grow our market share in the grocery and retail space across Italy.

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 Finance & Strategy team. We accelerate the growth of our business by implementing new opportunities and solutions, partnering across the company to improve the profitability and scalability of our business model.

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

• Strategic & Financial Planning: Support the annual planning process by diagnosing pain points, designing grocery/retail strategies, and building complex financial models for budget iterations.

• Performance Monitoring: Drive execution through rigorous reporting, including Weekly and Monthly Business Reviews (WBR/MBR) to identify growth opportunities and course corrections.

• Investment & Deal Approval: Support decision-making for major partner deals by analysing P&L impacts and ensuring alignment with budget constraints and market consistency.

• Regional Strategy Execution: Track the progress of New Verticals plans across Italy, ensuring operational milestones are met with data-driven precision.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, and Operations to drive accountability and goal achievement.

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 Experience: Proven experience in strategy consulting, M&A, Private Equity, or a high-growth tech environment.

• Numerical Excellence: Advanced proficiency in financial modelling and data tools (specifically GSuite/GSheets) to translate complex data into actionable insights.

• Stakeholder Influence: Strong ability to interact with and influence senior leadership across different levels of a matrixed organisation.

• Linguistic Skills: Professional fluency in English is required to collaborate within our global structure.

• Agile Mindset: A self-starter who thrives in fast-paced environments, managing ambiguity and tight deadlines with a focus on ownership.

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!