Senior Financial Analyst, Defect Cost Controllership

$60,200 - $128,800/Yr

Amazon - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

Amazon's North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to serve as a trusted finance partner for Defect Cost Controllership (DCC). This role is pivotal in supporting operational and functional leaders within one of the most complex retail networks globally, which delivers billions of packages to millions of homes and businesses each year. The successful candidate will join a dedicated team focused on operational and financial excellence, emphasizing ownership and continuous improvement in processes. The NACF DCC finance team aims to provide cost controllership, project return on investment (ROI), and financial insights for defect reduction initiatives across the supply chain. This involves translating operational KPIs into financial impacts, ensuring stakeholders have reliable information for decision-making. The role requires a proactive approach to learning and navigating complex ambiguities, fostering an environment where innovative thinking and process simplification are essential. Key responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of financial planning cycles, which encompass forecast modeling, bridging, and presenting to senior leadership. The analyst will perform financial validations for projects to ensure accurate ROI insights, collect and analyze quantitative data, and create meaningful reports that drive business improvement and defect cost reduction strategies. Additionally, the role involves conducting root cause analyses to identify core issues and collaborating with operational stakeholders to enhance productivity measures. The analyst will also be responsible for inventing and simplifying processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs related to defects. Effective communication skills are crucial, as the analyst will need to articulate complex financial issues clearly to various audiences and manage competing priorities while providing strategic guidance. The DCC team focuses on finance controllership, cost savings, and end-to-end defect cost reduction across NACF. The primary responsibilities include identifying opportunities for cost reduction, process improvement, and financial controllership. The team plays a significant role in decision-making, developing financial insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews, and conducting ad-hoc analyses on large or ambiguous deliverables. The position requires supporting multiple workstreams or projects, with an expected travel requirement of up to 20% throughout the year.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of the financial planning cycles including forecast modeling, bridging, and presentations to senior leadership.
• Perform projects financial validations to ensure accurate return-on-investment insights.
• Collect, analyze, and manage quantitative data and create meaningful reports to lead business improvement and defect cost reduction strategy.
• Perform root cause analysis to uncover core issues using data, assisting operation stakeholders to improve and create new measures for site productivity.
• Invent and simplify processes to drive efficiency and cost improvement over finance processes related to defect costs.
• Deliver scalable solutions to better understand end-to-end cost and identify new improvement opportunities.
• Communicate data clearly and concisely, adjusting style based on audience to articulate complex finance issues.
• Create effective business partnerships with senior stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance for cost strategy and goals.
• Challenge business partner plans and assumptions when necessary.
• Participate in developing and mentoring activities, leveraging diverse perspectives.

Requirements

• 3+ years of tax, finance, or a related analytical field experience.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management, or analysis.
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits package.
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of total compensation package.