Sr Financial Analyst, Finance Operations Business Partnering

Amazon - Arlington, VA

Full-time

Arlington, VA

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About the position

The FinOps Business Partner in Non-Inventory Accounts Payable will play a crucial role in driving financial improvement, scalability, and process excellence within Amazon's Finance Operations team. This position involves leading initiatives across various business units and tech teams to enhance vendor experience and improve Amazon's productivity and Free Cash Flow. The role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills to manage complex priorities in a fast-paced environment, making it ideal for finance professionals looking to expand their core finance experience in a project-driven operational area.

Responsibilities

• Build financial and operational analyses to drive global growth and scale, using data to influence senior leadership decisions.
• Partner with upstream business and technology teams to develop and deliver continuous system and process change, ensuring process excellence and highest levels of controllership.
• Define key performance indicators, develop metrics and service level agreements for core programs and processes, tracking delivery against program objectives.
• Drive resolution of critical vendor issues, working with FinOps Services and cross-functional teams to deep dive root cause, drive correction and improve customer experience.
• Communicate program and policy updates to senior leaders and employees across multiple business and finance teams.
• Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects.
• Identify and quantify financial and operational risks and opportunities, driving ad-hoc projects as required.
• Develop mechanisms to seamlessly support new program and tool launches worldwide.
• Work cross-functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and develop and implement plans to capitalize on those opportunities and measure and monitor success and impacts.

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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• Experience building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience.

Nice-to-haves

• 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)
• 4+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.

Benefits

• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Equal opportunity employer
• Support for workplace accommodations during the application and hiring process.