Senior Financial Analyst, Selling Partner Services (SPS)

Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services, ULC; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the e-commerce sector is seeking a Financial Analyst for its Finance Controllership Operations team in Vancouver. The role involves ensuring accuracy in financial reporting, engaging in new projects, and collaborating across various functions. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills and experience in financial processes, contributing to the company's commitment to operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or related analytical field experience.
• Experience in continuous improvement projects with measurable results.
• Fluency in technology and financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with Selling Partner Services to achieve business objectives.
• Performing key reconciliations for accurate financial reporting.
• Researching and analyzing data to report trends and recommend modifications.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Process-oriented

Education

MBA

CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

• This role can be located in Vancouver (Canada), Seattle (WA), Arlington (VA) or New York (NY).

Selling Partner Services (SPS) is responsible for several key elements of the Amazon flywheel. Globally, we ensure low prices for our customers; we provide a rich toolchain for our selling partners to work with Amazon; we drive traffic and increase conversion through promotions and services; and we lower cost structure via various initiatives, mechanisms, and vendor funding. We underpin these solutions with highly scalable, automated, self-service, extensible technology to help scale Amazon's worldwide consumer business.

SPS Finance is seeking a Financial Analyst to be a key contributor on the Finance Controllership Operations team. This team is responsible for ensuring high standards of controllership and accuracy in financial reporting, including new project engagement and ownership of key financial metrics for the North American marketplace.

Ideal candidates are process-oriented, highly analytical, and able to work effectively across multiple finance, business, and technical teams. They should be fluent in technology and financial processes in a fast paced, global, and results oriented environment. They look around corners and can influence without authority via data and concise communications across levels and functions. Ideals candidates can easily understand the business line, supporting information technologies, and finance / accounting disciplines of each project.

Key job responsibilities

• Partnering with the Selling Partner Services businesses to achieve business objectives while raising the bar on ownership of controllership.
• Consulting on new business ideas to ensure end to end system, financial reporting, and operational excellence.
• Performing key reconciliations to ensure complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting.
• Translate requirements between different functions to progress projects forward.
• Researches and analyzes fluctuations between system and project assessments and reports on trends, material changes and recommends modifications or new controls.
• Able to drill into large amounts of data and extract meaningful business metrics.
• Able to manage multiple competing priorities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• 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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