Finance & Strategy Director Italy

If you’re here, it’s because you’re looking for an exciting ride. 

A ride that will fuel up your ambitions to take on a new challenge and stretch yourself beyond your comfort zone. 

We’ll deliver a non-vanilla culture built on talent, where we work to amplify the impact on millions of people, paving the way forward together. 

Not your usual app. We are the fastest-growing multi-category app connecting millions of users with businesses, and couriers, offering on-demand services from more than 170,000 local restaurants, grocers and supermarkets, and high street retail stores. We operate in more than 1500 cities across 23 countries. 

Together we revolutionise the way people connect with their everyday needs, from delivering essentials to connecting our ecosystem of users through innovative solutions powered by technology. For us, every day is filled with purpose.

What makes our ride unique? 

Our culture and strong values. 

Our career development philosophy. 

Our commitment to being a force for good. 

We have a vision: Building the largest marketplace in your city, to give access to anything in minutes. And this is where your ride starts.

Your Mission

As Director of Finance & Strategy, you will be the key strategic advisor to the General Manager of Glovo Italy - one of Glovo’s largest and most strategic markets. With full ownership of the country’s financial planning, performance steering, and strategic decision-making, you will play a key role in shaping the financial health, strategic direction and long-term success of the business in a highly competitive and fast-evolving environment.

You will lead a high-performing team that combines financial excellence with strategic foresight, partnering with leaders across operations, marketing, q-commerce, commercial and more, ensuring that every initiative is value-generating, and every euro spent creates real impact.

The Journey

• Lead a Finance & Strategy team that delivers insights, proactively identifies opportunities, and challenges the status quo to shape the future of our business.
• Be the strategic right-hand to the General Manager: provide guidance on the country's roadmap, investment decisions, business model evolution, and other opportunities.
• Own and steer the full P&L, from revenue levers to cost optimization.
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and monthly performance reviews, partnering with all departments to drive transparency and accountability.
• Develop business cases, scenario analyses, and predictive models to guide expansion, commercial strategy, operational optimisation and innovation efforts.
• Partner with the central finance, strategy, and data teams to ensure alignment and best-in-class execution.
• Be a trusted counterpart in C-level discussions with accountability over financial storytelling and performance insights.
• Own process improvement and the finance operations roadmap in collaboration with local and global stakeholders.
• Support and oversee treasury and accounting needs as well as monitor and prepare financial policies and Financial Statements.
• Supervise the relationship with third parties: external auditors, administrations, external consultants as required.
• Represent the country in international forums, sharing learnings and helping shape Glovo’s global playbook.

What You Will Bring to the Ride

Experience & Background

• 10–15+ years’ experience in Finance, Strategy, Consulting, or equivalent high-impact environments.