How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge customer need through disruptive and innovative technology
Amazon Stores FinTech Team is seeking a IT Application Analyst to help optimize the TM1/Planning Analytics solutions in Financial Planning & Reporting space for its Finance business partners and customers. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fastpaced environment relishes working with customers looks forward to rub elbows with our finance product program engineering business partners and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business problems that are typically being defined in realtime.
Key job responsibilities
* Collaborate with finance product program and engineering business partners to scope detailed business requirements for TM1/Planning Analytics solutions to optimize finance organizations reporting and planning processes
* Collaborate with our business partners on researching and analyzing pain points with current applications and document for reference
* Daily tasks require working with customers and developers on technical operations. Longer term tasks will include research planning and design discussions with our internal customers.
* This role also requires troubleshooting and support for customers for launched TM1/Planning Analytics solutions.
* You participate in the hands on design and development of technology solutions. You bring data to the table that can help improve or reinvent the business process.
* You anticipate bottlenecks manage competing priorities evaluate and make tradeoff decisions balance the business needs versus technical constraints and maximize business benefit.
* In this role operational excellence is a key priority. You track down the true root cause of issues and take action to correct the errors. You have a constant eye for improvement.
* You focus heavily on crossfunctional communication to ensure key decisions risks issues and solution status are made clear to all.
* You will assess the feasibility of syncing TM1/Planning Applications with external data sources through innovative design where applicable
* You are prompt professional articulate and persistent in your interactions with customers and our partners.
* Bachelors degree in Finance Engineering Statistics Computer Science Mathematics or related field
* 3 years of relevant system support experience exhibiting knowledge of financial systems planning budgeting and forecasting functions and related processes
* 3 years experience with IBM Cognos Planning Analytics (TM1
* 3 years experience working with crossfunctional engagements problem solving business partnering skills attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
* Ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams and excellent and interpersonal skills
* Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues and coordinate with product managers and engineering teams for short term and long term solutions
* Masters degree in Business Engineering Statistics Computer Science Mathematics or related field
* Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel
* Proficiency in SQL NoSQL general DW concepts
* Understanding of data warehousing and data modeling
* Experience with Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) databases Redshift Teradata etc
* Ability to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives in a fast paced environment
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