Strategic Finance Analyst: P&L, Forecasting & Insights

Amazon Inc.; Dubai; On-site; AED 220,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Dubai seeks a Finance Analyst to drive P&L for a key business vertical, delivering financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and decision support through data analysis and business insight.

You will perform financial reporting, modeling and reviews, partner with leadership to shape strategic initiatives, and support controllership and close processes across the category.

Qualifications

• 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.

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).

Skills

Financial analysis

KPI analysis

Process improvement

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Economics

5+ years of financial data analysis experience

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Dubai seeks a Finance Analyst to drive P&L for a key business vertical, delivering financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and decision support through data analysis and business insight.

You will perform financial reporting, modeling and reviews, partner with leadership to shape strategic initiatives, and support controllership and close processes across the category.