Finance Business Partner, Amazon Now, MEATR Finance

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in Dubai is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to act as a finance business partner for its Quick Commerce business. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience in finance, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in SQL. You will lead planning and performance reviews, create financial models, and provide actionable insights to drive business performance. The position allows hybrid work flexibility.

Qualifications

• 4 years of finance or a related analytical field experience.
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management, or analysis.
• Experience designing and implementing controls or auditing.

Responsibilities

• Act as a finance business partner for quick commerce.
• Lead planning and performance reviews.
• Create models to manage growth and profitability.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Data mining

Financial modeling

Use of SQL

Tools

SQL

MS Access

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.

This position is office‑based with the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week in line with Amazons current flexible work guidance. Amazon encourages open communication about unique needs for flexible arrangements.

Key Job Responsibilities

• The candidate shall act as a finance business partner for quick commerce and across a variety of new programs and processes.
• 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.

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 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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