Senior Financial Analyst, Sub Same Day Operations

$60,200 - $128,800/Yr

Amazon.com - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

General Merchandise Retailers

About the position

Do you want to be part of an organization that is designing and launching new business? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on customers and working backwards? If so, the Global Specialty Fulfillment Finance team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst with a track record of achieving results. The Global Specialty Fulfillment Operations team covers a portfolio of businesses with unique fulfillment and operational capabilities such as Sub Same Day (SSD) and Rural Super Rural (RSR). Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses. Our teams experiment, fail fast, learn, and scale rapidly, and we have a culture of data-driven decision-making. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following: They influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon. They bring excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity of building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Creating financial models and plans, interpreting large data sets, drawing conclusions, and making recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon
• Building effective business partnerships and using active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner
• Identifying opportunities to reduce operational costs through data and financial analysis inclusive of proactively resolving defects, benchmarking key performance indicators, and developing new metrics
• Implementing solutions to simplify, improve, automate, standardize and scale processes

Requirements

• BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)
• 3+ years of finance experience or a related analytical field

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 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)
• MBA and/or Professional certification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or CPA)
• Highly analytical, detail oriented and strong business sense; proven ability to develop new ideas, creative solutions and demonstrated experience implementing such mechanisms to results

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits