Business Analyst, FinOps PMO

Amazon UK Services Ltd. - A10; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Business Analyst for its Finance Operations Program Management Office. In this dynamic role, you will analyze financial requirements, develop automated finance solutions, and foster collaboration to enhance business processes. Your insights will drive strategic decisions and add significant value to the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in tax, finance or analytical field.
• Experience defining requirements and using data for insights.
• Experience making business recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Work on finance requirements analysis, validation, and approval.
• Translate business and customer requirements using data analysis.
• Partner with operational teams to problem-solve in design and testing.

Skills

Excel

SQL

Data Visualization

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Job description

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At Amazon we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our passion for invention leads us to continually pioneer and globalize new businesses and customer offerings. As a result, Amazon continues to grow and evolve across many different business lines from Retail, Digital and Advertising to AWS, Logistics and Healthcare.

Finance Operations (FinOps) supports all business lines, in every geography across Amazon. By paying our Vendors and Suppliers (Procure-to-Pay), collecting cash (Order-to-Cash) and paying our employees (Payroll), on time and accurately, and with the best vendor and employee experience, FinOps plays a vital role as Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company.

As Amazon continues to grow so does the demand for our FinOps services. To support this expansion, we are recruiting a customer-obsessed, analytical and detail-oriented Business Analyst (BA) to join our FinOps Program Management Office (PMO). We’re not an average company and this is definitely not your average business analyst position. You’ll have the opportunity to really make a difference in a high growth environment, where you will have the ability to work on complex projects that meet our Business and Customer needs, are delivered to a high controllership standard and are scalable and repeatable into the future. This is an exciting, hands-on opportunity to join an area that touches every aspect of Amazon’s wide range of businesses globally.

Key job responsibilities
•Independently work on finance requirements analysis, validation, verification and approval, ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, feasible and traceable.
• Translate business and customer requirements, leveraging process and data analysis mechanisms to provide timely, meaningful and consumable information that drives significant business value.
• Work with Amazon’s technical teams, process owners and finance subject matter experts to effectively design, develop, test and launch automated, scalable finance solutions that address customer needs while meeting our high controllership and compliance standards.
• Ensure requirements traceability and manage change requirements through effective change control processes and tools.
• Dive deep to evaluate business finance processes and identify problems and opportunities.
• Partner with operational teams and process owners to problem solve during design, testing and deployment. Ensure efficient transition to operational business-as-usual.
• Create business analysis artefacts and processes that can be standardized and repeated, increasing the maturity and effectiveness of our teams.
• Develop optimization and automation strategies of finance business processes.
• Influence stakeholders to ensure relevant deadlines are met; communicate critical information effectively to stakeholders, to facilitate rapid decision making and problem solving.
• Continuously share domain/process expertise across own organization Who are we looking for?

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with Excel
- Experience with SQL
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Experience in financial/business analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent