Business Analyst, WW Fulfillment by Amazon - Product & Tech Finance
DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a Business Analyst to support Amazon's global 3P fee strategy for upstream and inbound services related to Selling On Amazon. Our 3P (Third-Party) business includes Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) and Merchant Fulfillment Network (MFN) channels. With Sellers contributing to over 50% of Amazon’s online sales, 3P Fee strategy is integral to Amazon’s ability to deliver on its goal of offering a vast selection of products at low prices to customers.
The successful candidate will have strong analytical background, track record of effective business partnership, and ability to deliver results in an ambiguous, fast-paced, and dynamic environment. The candidate must have the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders to understand topline and cost drivers, and deliver high quality insights to senior leaders to influence fee strategy.
We are looking for someone with expertise in data analytics skills, strong business acumen, an ownership mindset and ability to clearly communicate. In this role, you will leverage our data to drive efficiencies, provide key data-driven insights, enable new opportunities and innovate on behalf of business customers, in close partnership with both finance and business teams. You will manage and execute entire components of large projects from start to finish including data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations. You will also support building metrics and reporting on them to senior leadership.
A successful candidate will develop a strong understanding of our business and make data-driven conclusions. They will be comfortable with ambiguity while working in a fast-paced dynamic environment. They will also continuously learn new systems, tools, and industry best practices to help design new tools that help our team automate, and accelerate analytics.
Key job responsibilities
• Oversee business and finance reporting and analytics
• Understand input drivers and validate integrity of the reporting to influence strategic decision-making and planning
• Build and drive planning, forecasting, and reporting models
• Identify and support the automation of manual reports
• Generate actionable insights through the development of metrics, dashboards and deep dive analyses
• Communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner
• Influence critical business decisions with data
A day in the life
As the Business Analyst, you will work closely with multiple business and finance teams including product and tech team, data science team, and operations, to shape the monetization of our 3P business. You will help the team identify growth and profit opportunities, partnering with the business teams to develop cost reduction strategy for a global multi-Billion dollar cost reduction goal.
About the team
The WW Product & Tech Finance team focuses our effort on high impact analytical problem solving. Because of this unique focus we attract curious self-starters that thrive on developing new ideas. We have a tight business partnership with the WW FBA product and tech team and Operations where working groups organically coalesce to tackle big problems and opportunities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of business or financial analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with SQL
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions etc) and data visualization tools such as Tableau
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA or Masters in Business, Economics, Mathematics or Statistics
- Expert-level knowledge of SQL
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Advanced financial modeling & analytical skills
- Superior attention to detail
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.