Business Analyst, FinOps PMO
DESCRIPTION
At Amazon we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our passion for invention leads us to continually pioneer and globalize new businesses and customer offerings. As a result, Amazon continues to grow and evolve across many different business lines from Retail, Digital and Advertising to AWS, Logistics and Healthcare.
Finance Operations (FinOps) supports all business lines, in every geography across Amazon. By paying our Vendors and Suppliers (Procure-to-Pay), collecting cash (Order-to-Cash) and paying our employees (Payroll), on time and accurately, and with the best vendor and employee experience, FinOps plays a vital role as Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company.
As Amazon continues to grow so does the demand for our FinOps services. To support this expansion, we are recruiting a customer-obsessed, analytical and detail-oriented Business Analyst (BA) to join our FinOps Program Management Office (PMO). We’re not an average company and this is definitely not your average business analyst position. You’ll have the opportunity to really make a difference in a high growth environment, where you will have the ability to work on complex projects that meet our Business and Customer needs, are delivered to a high controllership standard and are scalable and repeatable into the future. This is an exciting, hands-on opportunity to join an area that touches every aspect of Amazon’s wide range of businesses globally.
Key job responsibilities
The BA performs detailed requirements analysis from a process, technology and people perspective, with a razor-sharp focus on the customer. You will:
• Independently work on finance requirements analysis, validation, verification and approval, ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, feasible and traceable.
• Translate business and customer requirements, leveraging process and data analysis mechanisms to provide timely, meaningful and consumable information that drives significant business value.
• Work with Amazon’s technical teams, process owners and finance subject matter experts to effectively design, develop, test and launch automated, scalable finance solutions that address customer needs while meeting our high controllership and compliance standards.
• Ensure requirements traceability and manage change requirements through effective change control processes and tools.
• Dive deep to evaluate business finance processes and identify problems and opportunities.
• Partner with operational teams and process owners to problem solve during design, testing and deployment. Ensure efficient transition to operational business-as-usual.
• Create business analysis artefacts and processes that can be standardized and repeated, increasing the maturity and effectiveness of our teams.
• Develop optimization and automation strategies of finance business processes.
• Influence stakeholders to ensure relevant deadlines are met; communicate critical information effectively to stakeholders, to facilitate rapid decision making and problem solving.
• Continuously share domain/process expertise across own organization Who are we looking for?
• To succeed, you will demonstrate the ability to work independently while dealing with high levels of ambiguity.
• You have a natural analytical way of thinking, diving deep into a problem, product and process and be able to explain difficult concepts to tech and non-tech stakeholders.
• Additionally, you will have a proven ability to learn quickly, distill complex scenarios into easily understandable synopses and communicate persuasively, in both written and oral form.
Amazon highly values diversity and has a number of initiatives in place to facilitate career opportunities and support individual career growth, including flexible working. There is a structured and supportive on-boarding environment to support new starters in getting up to speed quickly.
We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of finance, tax or a related analytical field experience, preferable in Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivables.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration or related field.
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders.
- Experience with process visualization tools (Visio, Draw.io).
- Experience with SQL and Data Analytics tools (Tableau, Quicksight).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with ERP-Systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP).
- Experience in defining requirements, supporting tools (Jira, Confluence) and using data and metrics to draw business insights.
- Certified in Business Analytics and/or Project Management (Prince2, PMI).
- Certified in Agile Methodologies (Scrum, PMI-ACP).
- Experience with Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions or power pivots).
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