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Description

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric 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 world-class e-commerce 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 high-growth business:

• Perform financial reporting and support monthly P&L analysis and Financial forecasts.

• Support in monthly/quarterly financial closing activity in close co-ordination 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 ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

• MBA, or CPA

• Knowledge of Tableau

• 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)