Financial Analyst I, Corp Accounts Payable

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Finance Operations Specialist to enhance their Global Accounts Payable team. This role involves critical reporting activities and managing relationships with global stakeholders to ensure timely vendor payments. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills, with a passion for process improvement. You'll be responsible for analyzing operational performance metrics, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines. If you're driven and detail-oriented, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Payable experience required.
• 2+ years of experience applying KPIs to analyses.

Responsibilities

• Act as key SME in assigned Account Payable areas.
• Analyze metrics and present data to leadership.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field

Tools

Excel

Access

Oracle

Essbase

SQL

VBA

Job description

Financial Analyst I, Corp Accounts Payable

Amazon is looking for driven Finance Operations Specialists to become major contributors to the fast-paced world of Global Accounts Payable. We will give you the opportunity to make a difference in a high growth environment where your ability to identify, communicate and drive changes will be key. You will own a critical reporting activity and manage direct relationships with multiple global stakeholders to coordinate problem solving activities ensuring timely payments to vendors.

We are looking for people with good communication and analytical skills as well as a passion for process improvement and problem solving. If you are motivated to dive into details, take ownership and work in a fast-paced environment we have the career you’re looking for!

Key Job Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be a member of Global Finance Operations and will be responsible for key metrics reporting and improvement.

Responsibilities include:

1. Act as key SME in your assigned Account Payable areas
2. Analyzing metrics relating to operational performance and effectively presenting data to leadership and internal teams
3. Working actively and accurately on an independent basis; ensuring great attention to detail and displaying the initiative to quickly identify and resolve variances, failures and discrepancies
4. Interacting with Operations, Business Partnering & Finance teams on root cause analysis, updating SOPs, communication and backward planning.
5. Work with global stakeholders to identify and drive improvement opportunities to success. This would include driving a culture of continuous improvement through quality initiatives like Lean & Six Sigma.
6. Publish accurate and timely monthly/bi-annual Payment Practice reports ensuring alignment with regulatory guidelines
7. Ability to create process and business requirements to enable tech solutions for automated reporting
8. Partner with AP-Analytics in maintaining and improving dashboards by ensuring timely addition of new entities
9. Review Payment Practice regulations, including updating reporting logic and rules for any law amendments by working with legal point of contacts
10. Complete self-inspection of data, which may require sampling invoices for all/new ingestion sources.
11. Respond to audit questions from CSI/FORI/External audit relating to reporting.

A Day in the Life

The ideal candidate will be experienced in a finance role with an understanding of finance operations and will have experience in relationship management. He/she will have problem solving skills with the focus on improving the processes and strengthening the payment practices. The ideal candidate should have an action-driven personality and motivation to proactively address any issues and identify areas for improvement. Additional traits we are looking for are a strong desire to exceed expectations, effective interpersonal skills; including persuasive written and oral communication, solid organizational skills and ability to assess and manage risk.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis

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