Senior Financial Analyst
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.
Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA is seeking an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to support our Amazon Air team.
We are looking for a Financial Analyst II to perform business specific Financial Planning & Analysis activities. The person will build financial and operational reports, and will own financial reports that influence decision-making. This person will become *the* trusted business advisor by sharing findings with business leaders, supporting them by providing data analysis and business insight.
The successful candidate will remain objective when communicating financial data results, provide clear and concise summaries, and effectively answer questions in detail to drive results. The person will be in charge of driving communication at the senior manager level, and articulate finance issues to non-Finance partners. This person will be comfortable working with cross-functional teams and demonstrating strong leadership skills. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.
Business Responsibilities
• Use the expertise in the collection, analysis and management of quantitative financial data, creating reports for monthly P&L analysis and financial forecasts
• Controllership will be your top priority. You will work with a variety of data sources and will identify basic control risks, evaluate impact, propose changes, and implement improvements to remediate gaps
• Manage monthly and quarterly forecast for both OPEX and headcount
• Partner and influence the stakeholders on the definition of strategic management of HC
• Provide insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews on a timely manner
• Monitor forecast accuracy, understand drivers of variances, and provide insightful commentary & analysis for both current period and future periods
• Partner with your business teams, and lead the developing of weekly / monthly financial close activities, planning, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to your business partners
• Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives
• Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls
• Identify opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes; lead projects to execute on those opportunities
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- * Strong English language, oral and written skills * Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with business partners * Fluency in Microsoft Excel and/or SQL, VBA, Microsoft Access, Oracle Financials, Cognos * Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- * Advanced SQL, Tableau, Power Query, and any other technical skills.
- * 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- * MBA degree is preferred.
- * Proven ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment.
- * Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.
- * Ability to work in cross-functional teams.