Senior Financial Analyst, EU Central Operations Finance
DESCRIPTION
As a Senior Finance Analyst, you’ll give us the visibility we need to drive Amazon forward. Finance teams are a constant adviser to the business. When our finances and program performance are optimized, we can keep delivering an excellent experience for our customers and find new ways to support them. This role gives you the opportunity to see how we make business decisions as you gather all the insights that we need to shape our future. Analytics Business Partner
Key job responsibilities
• Standardize, consolidate, automate and enhance daily and weekly reporting across EU, cooperating with CF Finance and Ops, ACES, BRS, L&D, PE and Central Flows BP’s as primary customers
• Identify, create and consolidate best practice reporting so BPs are using accurate data to make correct decisions
• Proactively identify and scope out potential initiatives to support BP’s
• Provide support to BP’s for adhoc requests with work received and prioritized via a SIM ticket queue
• Identify analysis / reports that would benefit other sites – all EU, country or FC type – and scale accordingly
• Identify repetitive requests for analysis and builds tools and reports to meet the demand to maximize automation of routine tasks
• Create and maintain an automation roadmap for the Central Finance Organization
• Build strong relationship with counterparties that are not its main customer in order to ensure that team work is not overlapping with other teams’ responsibilities.• Has ownership of data sets incoming into its own server and deprecation of data sources / servers
• Performing data sets checks for any data entering own cluster/server which further sources data for Central Finance owned tools and EU wide downstream teams dependent on data
A day in the life
As a Senior Finance Analyst, you’ll play a core role in a number of projects at any one time. By tracking performance metrics, analyzing data and building financial models, you’ll identify where we can drive better efficiency and productivity. This is a role which requires the potential candidate to have both strong business partnering skills combined with advance technical skills, as an analytical business partner. The ideal candidate must have high attention to detail, basic project management skills, the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously, understands how data flows through Amazon’s databases and platforms, knows the right data to use for detailed analysis and ad-hoc business requests, showing us how different scenarios impact our business from a financial perspective, which is vital for many of our stakeholders to make business decisions.
This role will allow you to work independently, whilst also working closely with our partners to provide the insights they need. You’ll be predominantly based in one of our fulfilment centers but may also be based in another of our sites.
About the team
The ACES-PE-CF-BRS-L&D Finance team is a group of finance representatives that are driving process stabilization, standardization and continuous improvement for the EU Network under different scopes of action. This team is essential to establish best in class network performance across all performance paths, accelerate implementation of projects and to strengthen the technical acumen and process knowledge for the operational leaders across the FC network.
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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