Senior Financial Analyst, ATS Sortation Centers, EU Operations Finance

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is actively seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join their EU Operations Finance team in London. In this role, you will be responsible for influencing the financial planning and execution of transportation operations, driving cost reductions, and improving customer experience. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and have a background in finance, capable of managing complex financial analyses and building relationships with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis tools.
• Ability to develop financial metrics and support budgeting processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and report financial metrics for reviews.
• Monitor existing processes and enhance financial controls.
• Manage financial planning and budgeting processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial performance indicators

Process improvement

SQL

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

Six Sigma Black Belt

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Senior Financial Analyst, ATS Sortation Centers, EU Operations Finance

Job ID: 3009563 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Amazon is seeking a highly analytical and resourceful Senior Financial Analyst to support our EU Middle Mile transportation network. We are continuously innovating on behalf of Amazon customers to deliver larger selection quicker and at lower prices.
In this role, you will influence the development, planning, and execution of our transportation network. The role will require quickly learning operations to understand economics and key financial drivers, and gaining proficiency with Amazon data systems in order to conduct efficient analyses. You will be working closely with business partners, stakeholders, and other finance teams across transportation, fulfillment, supply chain, and technology teams to reduce cost, while improving customer experience.

Key job responsibilities
• Interact with Finance stakeholders at multiple levels to understand business drivers of monthly variance
• Develop and report accurate, actionable, and timely financial and business metrics for Weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reviews.
• Monitor and enhance existing processes and controls in Business and Finance.
• Manage the financial planning / budgeting process.
• Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to department leaders
• Preparing concise documents, tailored to various levels of stakeholders, and collaborating with operations’ leaders and other teams

A day in the life
Core working hours are between 9AM to 5PM but this is flexible to match to your work/life harmony. Daily activities include working with your business partners to make frugal purchases, reconciling invoices to make sure Amazon is not overcharged, and partnering with your business partners on long term strategies with key vendors. To keep discussions factual, you will model the financial impacts of revised terms/contracts. You will have complete autonomy to improve your process as you see fit.

The Finance team is based in London and Luxembourg which is also where most of the business team is located. You will have the opportunity to work with your business partners in person.

We make sure to HAVE FUN in Amazon's Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History motto.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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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