Finance Business Partner

Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A global e-commerce leader in Dubai is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support its Quick Commerce business. This role involves leading planning processes, creating financial models, and providing insightful recommendations to drive business growth and profitability. Candidates should have 4+ years of finance experience, strong analytical skills, and expertise in data tools like SQL and Oracle. The position offers a dynamic environment where strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement are key to success.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience.
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience.
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and performance reviews for the country and various programs you are responsible for.
• Create and build models to manage and deliver the plan for growth and profitability.
• Deliver meaningful insight and practical recommendations to inform and influence business decisions.
• Build processes, tools, dashboard to support the business and improve decision making.

Skills

Leadership skills

Data analysis

Financial modeling

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Tools

SQL

Oracle

SAP

Job description

Amazon is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to partner with the Amazon Now business team and senior stakeholders responsible for our fast growing Quick Commerce business in the region.

As an experienced finance professional you will be expected to push a high control environment, drive innovation in both the business and finance processes as well as provide a long-term vision for a creating successful businesses that deliver a strong financial performance, whilst not compromising on customer experience and trust.

In this role, you will be expected to drive relationships with Category Leaders, Program owners, Operations and internal finance teams. You will take the finance lead for all initiatives, planning processes and metrics for periodic reviews, keeping customer experience front of mind you will drive cost out initiatives, touching all aspects of the value chain. You will help the business to deliver ambitious growth targets, benchmark performance with other marketplaces and establish plans and forecasts.

You will continuously audit business inputs and processes to ensure that strong financial controls remain fit for purpose, you will be required to dive deep into every aspect of the business, to drive improvement, and use data and strong business judgment to drive the right long‑term decisions.

You will lead the effort to develop tools that deliver insightful analysis and reporting to support decision‑making and monitor performance. You will be skilled in extracting insights from large volumes of data, and effectively communicate with your business partners in how to act on theses insights. You will be working closely with senior leadership in the region and expected to interact with Finance teams across other Emerging Stores and other finance functions (example Accounting, and FP&A).

The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment; will be a creative and analytical problem solver with a history of strong leadership skills in managing stakeholders and driving results. As an Amazon employee you will be expected to fulfill the Amazon motto to “Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History.”

Key job responsibilities

• Lead planning and performance reviews for the country and various programs you are responsible for.
• Create and build models to manage and deliver the plan for growth and profitability. Hold teams accountable for their designed KPIs.
• Deliver meaningful insight and practical recommendations, in addition to sound financial data analysis, to inform and influence business decisions.
• Deliver accurate financial information and key financial reporting to senior management.
• Represent Finance in MBRs, QBRs with narrative on performance.
• Evaluation of Initiatives: Analyze various ‘initiatives’ agreed with Category, Country, and program teams. Identify and document learnings, and share with the teams for better planning.
• Build processes, tools, dashboard to support the business and improve decision making.
• Understand the inherent limitations of data and exercise judgment to make trade-offs between timeliness and accuracy of analysis and how to best synthesize findings.
• Work with product managers to influence new program requirements and business decisions.
• 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience.
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience.
• Experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment.
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis.
• Experience working with stakeholders.
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence.
• 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).

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