Sr. Financial Analyst, Fulfillment; AWF - Exports Finance

Description

We are Amazon Worldwide Fulfillment (AWF) – Exports Finance, the division responsible for worldwide Air, Road, and Customs logistics, enabling goods selection expansion into a rapidly growing list of countries and emerging markets. We create new logistical benchmarks and "firsts" through disruptive innovation, and are experiencing hyper-growth.

We are searching for an exceptionally talented, bright, and driven Sr. Financial Analyst. Come build the Amazon of tomorrow, at what is already the most customer-centric company on earth.

This role partners closely with a broad range of global operations, business and finance leaders. The role also has stakeholders in country leaders, product teams, technology teams, and FP&A. This role works with product managers, operations managers, and software developers. This role designs, develops, and maintains performance measurements and reports on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.

Working with the technology teams, product management teams, and operations partners, the successful candidate will help in the prioritization and execution of key operations & technology programs which will ultimately accelerate the profitable growth of AWF products. Acting as the finance controller, the person will manage the financial health of the product portfolio.

• Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.

• Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel and SQL functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.

• Creates effective business partnerships, manages competing priorities, and provides guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events

• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.

• Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.

• Participates in hiring, developing, and mentoring peers and team members. Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities.

• Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.

• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and an effective influencer for new team members. Design and implement financial operating processes that enable program scalability and automation. Dive deep and understand all impacts related to these processes.

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable 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

• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy 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

• Six Sigma Black Belt

• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• MBA, or CPA

• Knowledge of Tableau

• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access,…