Senior Finance Analyst, Operations Risk Compliance

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join their Operations Risk Compliance team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your financial expertise to drive compliance business decisions and optimize operational performance. Your insights will be crucial for senior stakeholders as you analyze data, forecast metrics, and develop financial models that inform strategic initiatives. This position offers the chance to work independently while collaborating with diverse teams across the globe, ensuring compliance with regulations and enhancing the customer experience. If you are passionate about finance and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Degree required with relevant finance experience leading projects.
• Experience with Excel, Power BI, SQL, and financial modelling is essential.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and link operational objectives to financials for improvement.
• Produce financial plans and support strategic business decisions.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Data Analysis

Financial Modelling

Excel

Power BI

Python

SQL

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance

Degree in Mathematics

Degree in Economics

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Senior Finance Analyst, Operations Risk Compliance

Job ID: 2841298 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.

The right financial and business decisions have made Amazon what it is today. As a Senior Finance Analyst in Operations Risk Compliance (ORC), you will drive compliance business decisions for Amazon's operations risk compliance. You will closely work with worldwide ORC. You’ll lead others and use insights to show senior stakeholders ways that we can move forward with our business ambitions. When our finances and programme performance are optimised, we can keep delivering an excellent experience for our customers and find new ways to support them. This role gives you the opportunity to see how we make business decisions as you gather all the insights that we need to shape our future.

Key job responsibilities

1. Use a range of metrics and models to forecast, link operational objectives to financials, and determine opportunities for improvement.
2. Explore data to ensure reporting accuracy, and share financial analysis with business partners to support strategic business decisions.
3. Produce a financial and operational plan to support business priorities, and lead on associated projects.
4. Support with training new team members and contribute to onboarding plans.
5. Maintain and build tools for your team to support knowledge sharing and help to standardise processes across EU teams.

A day in the life

As a Senior 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.

About the team

Compliance’s role is to work across Amazon to uphold global and local regulations, laws and safety standards. Some of our team work to import restricted products safely. Others spend time classifying products, making sure customers get the right safety warnings and understand any risks that may come with their purchase. We take a long-term view of compliance. We use data, automation and world-class systems to make our customers’ shopping experience even better. Our team is based across the world, in regions including China, India, eastern Europe, the Middle East and South America. This way, we help colleagues across the globe stay safe and compliant.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree.
• Relevant experience in a finance role leading a project or programme and partnering with multiple stakeholders within a business.
• Relevant experience working with Excel, reporting tools and large-scale data mining tools, such as Power BI, Python, SQL, or Tableau.
• Relevant experience in financial modelling.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor's degree in finance, Mathematics, or Economics.
• Experience troubleshooting problems and offering solutions to streamline complex challenges.
• Experience of working in a large team or fast-paced, corporate environment.
• Experience of making strategic business decisions and managing internal relationships.

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