Senior Financial Analyst Operations Finance

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global e-commerce leader is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst in Dubai to drive operational excellence within the transportation finance team. The role involves building financial analyses, forecasting metrics, and collaborating across functions to deliver insights that enhance decision-making. Candidates should have significant experience in finance, knowledge of data analysis tools, and strong leadership skills. This position offers opportunities for professional growth while working in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5 years of tax finance or related analytical field experience.
• 5 years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience.
• 5 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• 5 years of identifying and executing improvement opportunities.
• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in finance or similar field.

Responsibilities

• Building financial and operational analysis to drive decisions.
• Forecasting to link operational objectives to financial outcomes.
• Providing finance support and challenge to senior stakeholders.
• Leading projects by managing timelines and ensuring quality.
• Generating insights from financial data to drive actions.

Skills

Tax finance experience

Accounts Receivable experience

Accounts Payable experience

Financial performance indicators

Process improvements

Automation experience

Data mining and reporting

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business economics, or related

MBA or CPA

Tools

SQL

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Embark on a Thrilling Journey as Amazons Senior Financial Analyst Driving Operational Excellence and Strategic Insights! Amazon Transportation is Amazons Middle and Last Mile delivery service responsible for delivering packages (and smiles) to households/businesses across the planet. Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while building a portfolio of Sort Centers delivery stations vans and technology to deliver customers packages on time often next day sometimes faster. We augment our traditional deliver by van with other models including eDSP Hub Tango Amazon Flex (gig economy drivers) Amazon Lockers and more all designed to deliver smiles to our customers. You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet.

AMZ Transportation Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support Egypt (located in Dubai). AMZ Trans offers opportunities to grow your career as you engage on one of the many facets of this worldclass delivery service.

As a Senior Financial Analyst on the Egypt Trans Ops Finance team (Located in Dubai) you will be pivotal to the teams success as supporting financial and operational reporting, decision support, financial planning and modeling, controller ship and operations cost reduction implementation. You will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to provide timely analysis, insightful guidance and financial leadership to our delivery organization as we grow our delivery business rapidly. This role will provide extensive cross‑functional partnership opportunities with business and finance stakeholders to identify best practices across the network and lead cost improvement efforts for operations. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative socially responsible last mile logistics solutions through large‑scale data‑driven decision making.

Success in this role requires you to partner with and influence business owners, support thoughtful decision‑making and adapt to a rapidly‑evolving environment. You will collaborate with finance and functional leaders and peers across multiple business units within Amazon. You bring best‑in‑class business partnership while providing strong controller ship. You are comfortable leading variance analysis deep dives, presenting to business owners during reviews and can pivot between structured financial processes and ad‑hoc projects and analyses. You exhibit sound judgment in prioritizing your work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders and solve complex problems that affect company‑wide strategic decisions and your team.

This role offers the perfect blend of independence and teamwork as you’ll have the freedom to dive into complex projects while also fostering close relationships with our on‑ground operations. You’ll gain a deep understanding of the inner workings of Amazons logistics ecosystem working alongside other operational and finance teams.

Are you ready to be the catalyst for transformative change Unlock your potential and embark on an exhilarating career journey with Amazon!

Key job responsibilities

• Building financial and operational analysis to drive and influence data‑driven senior leadership decisions.
• Use a range of metrics and models to forecast link operational objectives to financials and determine opportunities for improvement.
• Business partner cross‑functionally with key senior stakeholders providing finance support and challenge.
• Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issue.
• Produce a financial and operational plan to support business priorities and lead on associated projects.
• Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions.
• Support with training new team members and contribute to onboarding plans.
• Maintain and build tools for your team to support knowledge sharing and help to standardize processes across AMET teams.

A day in the life

As a Sr Finance Analyst you’ll play a core role in a number of projects at any one time. By tracking performance metrics, analysing data and building financial models you’ll identify where we can drive better efficiency and productivity. You’ll also show us how different scenarios impact our business from a financial perspective which is vital for many of our stakeholders to make business decisions.

This role will allow you to work independently whilst also working closely with our partners to provide the insights they need. You’ll be predominantly based in one of our corporate offices but may also require to travel to sites on an ad‑hoc basis.

About the team

Are you an individual who thrives on making lightning‑fast decisions while effortlessly navigating the complexities of stakeholder management? Can you deftly handle ambiguity with the grace of a tightrope walker all while embracing the thrill of venturing down the road less travelled? If so this role might just be the perfect fit for you!

As a vital component of AMET Ops Finance team you’ll have the opportunity to support one of our key pillars where your penchant for high‑velocity decision‑making and your ability to captivate even the most seasoned L7s and Senior L6s will be invaluable assets. Brace yourself for a steep learning curve that promises both exhilaration and immense satisfaction as you embark on a journey to craft something truly unique.

So if you’re ready to embrace the challenge and leave your mark on our dynamic team we invite you to step forward and seize this extraordinary opportunity. Just remember the road less travelled is often the one that leads to the most rewarding destinations.

Qualifications

• 5 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 5 years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience.
• 5 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience.
• 5 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience.
• 5 years of identifying leading and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardise or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering, math, computer science) or Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 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).

Required Experience

Senior IC

Additional Information

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