Senior Financial Analyst, EU Growth & Strategy

ACCA Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) finance org, an area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel. This role supports EU initiatives, demands high impact across pricing and operations costs, and partners with multiple teams to deliver insights and leadership.

The ideal candidate will drive FP&A for EU, build financial models, and lead cross-functional programs with operations, product, and tech teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field.
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
• Experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau)

Responsibilities

• Drive the core financial processes for the organisation including Annual Operating Plans, 3 year Strategic Plan, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews
• Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs, and make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure.
• Partner with senior business leaders and develop operational metrics and goal setting to help the team improve performance
• Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communications drive critical business decisions.
• Analyse ROI of different programs/initiatives and generate actionable insights from large amounts of data
• Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.
• Exhibit social responsibility. Actively recruit bar-raising talent, continuously develop your team.

Skills

Forecasting

Budgeting

Variance analysis

KPIs

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related analytical field

Tools

Power BI

Python

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) finance org, an area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel. This role supports EU initiatives, demands high impact across pricing and operations costs, and partners with multiple teams to deliver insights and leadership.

The ideal candidate will drive FP&A for EU, build financial models, and lead cross-functional programs with operations, product, and tech teams.