Amazon strives to be Earths most customercentric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want low prices vast selection and convenience Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a worldclass ecommerce platform.
Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to lead function/category specific finance activity. The person would play a key role in driving the function /category agenda and would work as copilot in delivering the business result. The key task would be to help to help the business in decision support through data analysis and business insight.
Key responsibilities:
Senior Financial Analyst will be a finance partner to the relevant business team. This includes among other things responsibility for financial metrics reporting budgeting forecasting and analysis. The successful candidate will be strategic analytical and have the demonstrated ability to effectively manage the finances of a highgrowth business:
Perform financial reporting and support monthly P&L analysis and Financial forecasts.
Support in monthly/quarterly financial closing activity in close coordination with business and accounting teams
Closely monitor and control opex budget for the business. Evaluate and question the opex requirements and continuously benchmark cost productivity for the business.
Facilitate financial review meetings with business groups and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management.
Assist in Measuring and reporting progress on key goals for the business team in a timely manner
Measuring and monitoring of metrics for new business initiatives
Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner. Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time.
Perform adhoc business analyses and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
3 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
4 years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
4 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
4 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
4 years of identifying leading and executing opportunities to improve automate standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
Bachelors degree in engineering statistics or business or Bachelors degree and 5 years of quantitative role (engineering process reengineering quality assurance) experience
Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
4 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decisionmaking experience
MBA or CPA
Knowledge of Tableau
Experience working with largescale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL MS Access Essbase Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle SAP Lawson JD Edwards)
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