Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Logistics (UK&IE)

ACCA Careers; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading logistics team as a Financial Analyst in London, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing operational performance and driving business decisions. This exciting position involves collaborating with various partners to analyze financial data, monitor performance metrics, and lead initiatives aimed at cost reduction while ensuring fast deliveries. If you're an analytical problem solver eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Embrace the challenge and help shape the future of logistics at a renowned company known for its innovative approach to customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with experience in finance or analytical fields.
• Strong analytical skills to improve financial tools and processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and analyze financial models to drive business decisions.
• Generate insights from financial data to improve efficiency.

Skills

Analytical Problem Solving

Financial Analysis

Performance Monitoring

Data Interpretation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SQL

TM1

Cognos

Essbase

Job description

Amazon UK is seeking a Financial Analyst to join our UK Amazon Logistics Finance team based in London. This role focuses on supporting our logistics business to drive performance and deliver packages to our customers by monitoring weekly and monthly performance and providing analysis to support the Amazon Logistics strategic, financial, and operational plans.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a key finance partner in a rapidly evolving business where this role plays a vital part in enhancing our customer experience. Our Financial Analysts take a hands-on role to boost our business performance and efficiency. You'll collaborate with partners in different areas of our Logistics business to provide insights on improvements in our operational performance. That will involve deep diving into data, managing our planning processes, and weekly/monthly reporting on our key metrics. This role will also support the business on driving initiatives to reduce costs while maintaining fast delivery of packages to all UK customers. We operate within an EU team, and an expectation to work collaboratively across our EU counterparts allows us to gain access to vital insights and standardise our work.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Above all, we seek an analytical problem solver with the ability to fulfil the Amazon motto to "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History". This role is based in our Corporate London office 5 days a week.

Key job responsibilities

1. Build and analyse financial models to drive business decisions and make judgement calls on challenges using your understanding of Amazon's cost structure.
2. Deep dive into key trends/issues arising and challenge business partners on key operational and financial metrics.
3. Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality, and resolving issues.
4. Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency, and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions.
5. Own the financial and operational plan and financial reporting, creating scalable processes and monitoring these for accuracy.
6. Continuous development and simplification of efficient reporting tools and processes to support decision-making.

About the team

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and, when the box arrived, you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? Amazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles 'last mile' delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. We utilise creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the hands of our customers. Our goal is to make our customers' delivery experience as smooth as possible and roll out global delivery solutions for our newest concepts, like Amazon Fresh, Prime Now, and Amazon Restaurants. There are two sides to what we do. Our 'under the roof' associates process millions of products for dispatch to our delivery teams. Our team is people-focused and supportive, particularly as lots of our people work through the night. We focus mostly on operations, with 24/7 shifts in most of our locations. Meanwhile, our 'on the road' people work with Amazon Flex - a network of delivery contractors. Every year, we continually raise the bar for customer experience with new, innovative delivery services. We look for new ways to overcome industry-wide logistics challenges and new ideas to reduce our carbon footprint, supported by a portfolio of vehicles (including Electric Vehicles) and technology to help us do just that.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field
• Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardise, or simplify finance or business tools and processes
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos, or Essbase), SQL, and Data warehouse

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