Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Global Sales Finance - EMEA

ACCA Careers; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the finance sector is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support its Commercial Sales organization within AWS. This pivotal role requires exceptional analytical abilities, experience with KPIs, and the capacity to drive financial process improvements in a fast-paced environment. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to influence significant financial decisions and contribute to the future success of the EMEA AWS organization.

Qualifications

• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Skills in process improvements through automation and analysis.
• Experience with large-scale data mining and financial reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business performance and communicate financial results.
• Drive financial controllership and compliance.
• Partner with sales and operations to implement new processes.

Skills

Financial modeling

Advanced Excel

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business partnering role and the ability to make an impact on one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon? Want to directly influence the future of the EMEA AWS organization? Come join AWS EMEA!

AWS Finance seeks a world class Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of its team supporting our fast-growing Commercial Sales organization for EMEA.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will partner closely with the Sales and operations teams to analyze the business performance, communicate the financial results, run financial models and evaluate business opportunities. You will drive financial controllership and compliance to internal policies, and innovations to improve our finance tools and processes. As a member of an EMEA Finance team, you will be involved in EMEA wide projects and/or Subject Matter Expertise.

This role requires a solid financial modeling background, advanced Excel abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations and project management skills. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal skills.

Key job responsibilities

- Create, influence and execute a vision to measure investments across Commercial sector

- Partner with business team to implement new processes (controllership) and drive the improvement of existing processes

- Ownership of key reporting metrics (KPI's) and narratives to help business partners understand areas of growth as well as opportunity for engagement

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree, or MBA

- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses

- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA, or CPA

- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

- 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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