Uber’s Finance Computation Platform

Uber’ s Finance Computation Platform

摘要

For a company of our size and scale, robust, accurate, and compliant accounting and analytics are a necessity, ensuring accurate and granular visibility into our financials, across multiple lines of business.

Most standard, off-the-shelf finance engineering solutions cannot support the scale and scope of the transactions on our ever-growing platform. The ride-sharing business alone has over 4 billion trips per year worldwide, which translates to more than 40 billion journal entries (financial microtransactions). Each of these entries has to be produced in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and managed in an idempotent, consistent, accurate, and reproducible manner.

To meet these specific requirements, we built an in-house Uber’s Finance Computation Platform (FCP) —a solution designed to accommodate our scale, while providing strong guarantees on accuracy and explainability. The same solution also serves in obtaining insights on business operations.

There were many challenges in building our financial computation platform, from our architectural choices to the types of controls for accuracy and explainability.