Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A
DESCRIPTION
The right financial and business decisions have made Amazon what it is today. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you’ll help us optimize our finances so that we can enhance our customer experience even more and navigate the fast-changing business environment. This role is an opportunity to act as the key finance leader for a strategic program and get really involved with shaping our business. You’ll lead others and use insights to show senior stakeholders ways that we can move forward with our business ambitions.
Key job responsibilities
- Build financial models to drive business decisions and make judgement calls on challenges using your understanding of Amazon’s cost structure
- Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issues
- Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency, and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions
- Own the financial and operational plan and financial reporting, create scalable processes and monitor teams for accuracy
- Onboard, develop and mentor team members in areas of financial reporting for accuracy, create best practice materials and promote knowledge sharing
A day in the life
Our Senior Financial Analyst at this level take a hands-on role to boost our business performance and efficiency. You’ll collaborate with partners in different areas of our business to provide insights on improvements in our operational performance. That will involve deep diving into data, managing our planning processes, and giving team members guidance on more ambiguous areas of our cost structures. You’ll also help other teams across the EU to gain access to vital insights and to collaborate.
You’ll mentor people and work closely with partners to help inform and guide their key decisions.
About the team
In this role you will partner with finance and business stakeholders in Amazon Fresh operations and retail to optimize our financial performance through succinct reporting and story telling insights. You will work with functional finance teams to prepare the yearly and quarterly forecasts (operational plans). And you will produce quantitative and qualitative analyses to underpin direction and achievement of strategic organizational goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- A degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field
- Relevant experience in a finance role including partnering with a variety of stakeholders across the business
- Relevant experience in managing people
- Relevant experience working with Excel and large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as Python, SQL or Tableau
- Relevant experience in financial modelling
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Advanced or master’s degree in finance, economics or mathematics, such as a CA, CMA, CWA or MBA
- Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
- Experience working in large teams or at a national/multinational organisation
- Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influence decisions
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