Senior Financial Analyst, Global Security Operations Finance
DESCRIPTION
The GSO Finance team supports Global Security Services (GSO) organization is dedicated on driving the Amazon flywheel. As part of the team, you will provide primary support to the GSO leadership team to validation of project analysis, CAPEX methodologies, support directors in strategic alliance across the field network and deliver analysis to identify opportunities and benefits impacting OPEX or CAPEX execution across Amazon Network
GSO Finance seeks a Sr. Financial Analyst to provide primary support to overall Amazon cost structure and deliver upon CAPEX to Senior Leadership. This role collaborates closely with a broad range of global finance and business leaders in Procurement, Field, Compliance, Risk and Insurance and Operations teams. The role also partners with stakeholders across technical project & security teams, FP&A. This role involves collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data and creating meaningful reports to track CAPEX spending related to business improvement and cost reductions across the global supply chain. This role also maintains spend and savings measurements, and partners with category management on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the scalability and efficiency of CAPEX execution.
The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon. You bring excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.
- Delivers weekly/monthly financial close.
- Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
- Creates effective business partnerships, manages competing priorities, and provides guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events
- Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
- Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
- Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities.
- Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- A degree
- Relevant experience in a finance role leading a project or programme and partnering with multiple stakeholders within a business
- Relevant experience working with Excel, reporting tools and large-scale data mining tools, such as Power BI, Python, SQL, or Tableau
- Relevant experience in financial modelling
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- A bachelor's degree in finance, Mathematics, or Economics
- Experience troubleshooting problems and offering solutions to streamline complex challenges
- Experience of working in a large team or fast-paced, corporate environment
- Experience of making strategic business decisions and manage internal relationships
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