Finance Analyst, Canada Retail, Canada Stores Finance

Want to help build the leading e-commerce finance team At Amazon its our goal to be the most customer-centric company where customers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We are seeking a Finance Analyst to be a key member of the Canada Stores Finance team.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the strategic direction of one of Amazons fastest growing and most successful businesses with a focus on capturing growth opportunities and driving profitability improvement. The CA Retail Finance team supports the core category business (Hardlines Softlines Consumables) and various fast-growing and highly impactful programs (e.g. Daily Essentials Subscribe and Save Coupons Private Brands Amazon Business etc.). We are looking for an analytical self-driven and innovative Finance Analyst who is able to distill complex problems into solutions that drive business insights and finance process improvement. As a key member of the Canada finance team you will develop strong business partnerships by frequently engaging with leadership teams vendor managers marketing and operations partners to share financial insights set strategy and influence business decisions.

The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills a keen attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Key job responsibilities
- Owns Profit and Loss Statement across both 1P & 3P Business for their GL(s) (i.e. acts as the CFO of their business).
- Managing weekly monthly and quarterly financial reporting including operational metrics.
- Communicating financial and business results to senior leaders; going beyond the what happened and focusing on the what can we do about it.
- Seeing around corners for the next big opportunity and helping to scale those insights to your GL Counterparts across CA and NAS.
- Gathering analytical insights and developing financial frameworks that inform and measure investment decisions and help set the long-term strategy.
- Performing deep dive analyses to develop recommendations that impact the decision making of senior leadership; this is across profitability topline and cost out initiatives.
- Ensure a high level of financial controllership maintaining data integrity.
- Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to take deep dive findings and right size insights for their business partners ultimately driving financially accretive actions.



- 3 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelors degree in engineering statistics or business or Bachelors degree and 5 years of quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering quality assurance) experience
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- 3 years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 3 years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience

- 4 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA or CPA
- Experience working with large-scale 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 82700.00 - 117100.00 USD annually