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Description

The Financial Analyst will partner with the Global Finance team (based in the US and Europe) to support various analytical, planning and reporting needs. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced business at Amazon.

A successful candidate should be comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and demonstrate good leadership skills. The ideal candidate must have attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.

Key job responsibilities

The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of an extremely dynamic and high paced environment, supporting a global organization and offers significant opportunities for rapid growth.

• Perform financial reporting and support monthly P&L analysis and financial forecasts

• Developing and reporting on financial and operational performance metrics

• Support in monthly/quarterly financial closing activity in close co-ordination with business and accounting teams

• Assist in Measuring and reporting progress on key goals for the business team in a timely manner

• Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner. Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time

• Long and short term financial planning

• Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives

• Perform headcount planning and forecasting

• Partnering with various accounting and finance vertical (Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable) to ensure procedures and controls are routinely applied whist performing accounting and operation.

• Execute and drive KPI metrics for business and operation performance

• Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls, and apply them

• Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.

• Participate in recruiting efforts. Continually raises the bar

• Responsible to frame and deliver team objectives.

• Drive process improvements required to enhance controls.

• Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required.

• Experience in Anaplan tool would be added advantage

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

• 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

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)