Business Analyst Entertainment PXT

Amazon has a culture of datadriven decisionmaking and demands business intelligence that is timely accurate and actionable. We are looking for a talented and experienced Business Analyst to join the Entertainment People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization.

About the Role:
Business Analysts are responsible for converting data into actionable business insights. They are analysis experts who leverage a variety of data platforms and analytical tools to provide timely meaningful and consumable information. They build deep contextual and domain knowledge. They ensure data quality and build scalable tools. They communicate findings with the most effective and influential methods.

In this role you will work directly with crossfunctional teams across Entertainment and other parts of Amazon operating as both a builder and influencer. You will design and build automated reports and dashboards using large and complex data lake/warehouse environments. You will build proofofconcept reporting tools while scaling adhoc data artifacts enabling the Entertainment HR and business teams to selfserve and make informed decisions in fastpaced ambiguous businesses. You will perform multiple complex and business critical analyses that serve major parts of the Entertainment organization using existing data and research to identify new challenges and opportunities as well as data collected through methods you create and define. You should have strong analytical and verbal and written communication skills and work with HR and business teams to define key business questions and build data sets and models that answer them.

A successful candidate will have a passion for innovation interest in advanced technology and excitement about working in a highimpact domain. You work very efficiently and routinely deliver the right things. You show strong analysis making technical tradeoffs between shortterm and longterm business needs. When confronted with discordant views you find the best way forward and convince your stakeholders. This role is inherently crossfunctional you will work closely HR business partners program managers data engineers business analysts and other partners across Amazon. You should be comfortable working in a dynamic environment and seek datadriven decisionmaking.

About the Business:
The role is part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization we build a workplace for Amazonians to invent and deliver on behalf of customers. PXT for Amazon Entertainment supports a portfolio of entertainment businesses that span film TV live sports music podcasts games audio books livestreaming and other media content. Our Entertainment employees deliver worldclass products and services for playing listening watching and streaming in an everimmersive entertainment environment. The Entertainment PXT team focuses on the inputs that attract grow and retain creative technical and business talent at scale. We customize for unique Entertainment business and industry needs where necessary and scale where possible and applicable.

About the Team:
This Business Analyst will be part of the Entertainment PXT Talent Experience Team. Our purpose is to create and deliver talent programs that help us be Earths Best Employer by focusing on the employee experience from joining Amazon Entertainment to building connection with each other and our customers through growing personally and professionally to being empowered to balance fun wellness and learning to sustain a long fulfilling career with Amazon.

A Little More About Location:
At Amazon we believe it is easier to learn model practice and strengthen our culture when were in the office surrounded by our colleagues. This role will be based in our Seattle or Culver City office. Most of the partners of this role are located in Seattle WA Culver City CA and Arlington VA.

Key job responsibilities
Own the design development and maintenance of ongoing metrics reports analyses and dashboards to drive critical talent decisions.
Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for talent programs. Prepare and deliver business reviews to the senior leadership team regarding core talent progress insights and roadblocks.
Develop tools dashboards queries reports and scripts that will automate recurring tasks for the Entertainment PXT team while ensuring data quality and integrity. Ensuring the accuracy of data and data analysis is of utmost importance.
Design and develop efficient data tables using SQL that include precomputed metrics and can be used by business analysts and internal analytic users.
Identify design and develop data source discovery efforts across databases and identify data/table links/joins between data/table sets.
Gather new data and/or creatively use existing data to propose metrics and present them in a compelling and easily understood way to a nonstatistical audience.
Manage stakeholder requirements and feature requests. Interface with large group of customers across multiple teams and functions gathering requirements and delivering complete reporting solutions.
Prioritize between multiple requests and communicate clearly to stakeholders about any challenges and project delivery.
Partner with cross functional business teams to consult develop and implement metrics. Automate reporting solutions and process improvements to meet business needs.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
4 years of business analyst data analyst or similar role experience
Experience in Excel (including VBA pivot tables array functions power pivots etc. and data visualization tools such as Tableau
Demonstrated proficiency in SQL including experience writing complex queries and optimizing database performance
Experience with data modeling data warehousing and ETL pipelines.
Experience developing datadriven business insights from multiple disparate data sources to defining requirements and produce unified solutions.
Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders via written and verbal communication.

Masters degree in finance accounting business economics engineering analytics mathematics statistics or a related technical or quantitative field
5 years of business analyst data analyst or similar role experience
Previous experience working in or with Human Resources and people data.
Experience using AWS analytical services (e.g. Redshift Data Pipeline EMR Machine Learning Kinesis).
Proven success leading ambiguous highstakes analytics projects to completion

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.