Financial Analyst, PXT Finance

$60,200 - $128,800/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, creative, and driven people. If you want to help make history and have fun, Amazon is the place for you. Within Amazon's Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A), specifically supporting People Experience and Technology (PXT), we enjoy a unique vantage point into everything happening within Amazon. Our team provides strategic support to the SVP of PXT, her leadership team, and senior leadership on enterprise-wide planning, analysis, and reporting. As the central place the entire company looks to for an understanding of financial performance, we play a major role in driving business decisions, especially those related to headcount and employee cost. We answer questions directly from Amazon leadership and give them the data and insights they need to make key decisions impacting all of Amazon. In this high visibility role, you will partner directly with members of the PXT leadership team to provide strategic finance support, month-end reporting, prepare annual and quarterly financial forecasts and overall controllership for the organization. By joining us, you will have opportunities to interact with stakeholders at many levels all around the globe, deliver crisp and clear communication verbally and in writing, influence decision making, and apply your financial acumen to a wide variety of challenges.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the key finance partner working directly with PXT LT covering the Global Operations Organization
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses and dashboards to drive key business decisions
• Deliver the core planning processes including quarterly estimates, the annual operating plan/ 3-year forecast
• Partner closely with senior business leaders and cross business FP&A teams
• Complete cost benefit analyses and communicate key drivers and inputs to support business decisions
• Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to senior management

Requirements

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

Benefits

• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other forms of compensation