About the Role
Amazon is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) finance org, an area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel. This person will be a leader in the Finance organization supporting the business initiatives related to SWA EU. This is a very high impact and high visibility role supporting the growing EU business as it seeks to scale through new marketplaces and demand streams.
Responsibilities
•Drive the core financial processes for the organisation including Annual Operating Plans, 3 year Strategic Plan, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews
•Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs, and make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure
•Partner with senior business leaders and develop operational metrics and goal setting to help the team improve performance
•Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communications drive critical business decisions
•Analyse ROI of different programs/initiatives and generate actionable insights from large amounts of data
•Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions
•Exhibit social responsibility
•Actively recruit bar-raising talent, continuously develop your team
Requirements
•Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
•Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results
•Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
•Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
•Experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau)
Nice to Have
•Knowledge of Tableau
•Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
•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)
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
