Sr Financial Analyst, North American Customer Fulfillment

Description

Amazon's North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to join the DATA (Data, Analytics, Tools, and Automation) Team, supporting operational and functional leaders in IXD and SDC within Amazon's Fulfillment Network. Amazon operates the most complex retail networks in the world, delivering billions of packages to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses annually. Come be part of this tremendous growth and join a dedicated team committed to operational and financial excellence where you will focus on the inputs, think like an owner and where every day is Day One.

To join us on this journey, we are looking for a self-starter with strong data collection and modeling capabilities, a keen attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role has regular interaction with various stakeholders across Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain, providing reporting and business support for decision making that have an impact at a big scale.

This role will require some technical expertise with SQL, Advanced Excel, and Quicksight to support the creation and design of reporting in the IXD and SDC networks.

Key job responsibilities

Business Finance Support:

* Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, and drive improvements.

* Proactively identify opportunities to resolve finance defects and improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes across teams and organizations.

* Independently align financial and operational analyses with your business partners, challenging business partner assumptions when necessary.

* Provide analysis and recommendations to business leaders to support operational and growth business decisions and action plans.

Controllership:

* Own the reporting for a business area and may supervise or teach others in areas of building or maintaining the reporting.

* Identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.

* Develop and execute data analysis processes that are scalable and auditable.

Communication:

* Intuitively utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues.

* Create effective business partnership with Finance partners and Site Leaders, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance during unexpected events.

Team Leadership:

* Take part in developing and mentoring activities, and leverage diverse perspectives.

A day in the life

No day in Operations is ever the same! As a Senior Financial Analyst of the NACF team you will work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. You'll work alongside your Finance, Ops and Support teams to help make Amazon the Earth's Best

Employer:

automation, reporting, and data driven analysis will encompass your days.

You will be supporting multiple sites, so up to 20% Travel is expected throughout the year.

About the team

This role will partner closely with a broad range of Senior Leaders in Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Technology. This role plays a critical role as a financial advocate and business partner. This role will design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.

Basic Qualifications

* 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

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

* 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, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

Amazon is an equal…