MEA Finance Analyst - P&L, Forecasting & Insights

Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC seeks a Finance Analyst to drive the P&L for a key marketplace vertical, owning financial metrics, reporting, forecasting, and decision support through data analysis and business insight. You will perform financial reporting, modeling and ad-hoc analyses, and present recommendations to senior leadership.

The role includes controllership and process improvements to enhance transparency and strengthen controls, collaborating with finance and business

Qualifications

• Financial reporting, ad-hoc analyses and financial modeling.
• Present recommendations to senior leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
• Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls.
• Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with business and finance leaders to ensure effective performance reviews.
• Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals and contribute to Free cash flows
• Manage financial planning, analysis, and forecasting using the key input levers to the business.
• Facilitate weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow-through with action items.

Responsibilities

• Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling.
• Presenting recommendations to business leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
• Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls.
• Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with business and finance leaders to ensure effective performance reviews.
• Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals and contribute to Free cash flows
• Manage financial planning, analysis, and forecasting using the key input levers to the business.
• Facilitate weekly/ monthly/ quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow through with business and finance partners on actionable items for improving metrics over a period of time
• Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly and annual financial-book close process for the category.
• Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
• Develop tools that deliver insightful analysis and reporting to support decision-making and monitor performance.
• Will be skilled in extracting insights from large volumes of data, and effectively communicate with business partners in how to act on theses insights.
• Interact with Finance teams across other Emerging Stores and other finance functions (example Accounting, and FP&A).
• 3+ years of tax, 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
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Economics, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 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)
• MBA, or CPA

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

KPI analysis

Data mining

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Economics

MBA

CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC seeks a Finance Analyst to drive the P&L for a key marketplace vertical, owning financial metrics, reporting, forecasting, and decision support through data analysis and business insight. You will perform financial reporting, modeling and ad-hoc analyses, and present recommendations to senior leadership.

The role includes controllership and process improvements to enhance transparency and strengthen controls, collaborating with finance and business