Senior Financial Analyst, IN Marketing Finance

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join its marketing finance team in London. This role involves driving financial partnership, managing P&L costs, and delivering financial metrics. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical abilities and financial acumen to support strategic decisions through data-driven insights. Responsibilities include financial reporting, modeling, and collaboration with business leaders to optimize performance and achieve business goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in tax, finance, or analytical fields.
• Experience in Accounts Receivable or Payable for 4+ years.
• Proven track record in process automation and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial reporting and analyses, presenting recommendations.
• Manage financial planning and drive operational cost improvements.
• Facilitate financial reviews and collaborate with accounting teams.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial reporting

Data analysis

Process improvement

Education

Chartered Accountant or MBA (Finance)

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Microsoft Access

Oracle

SAP

Job description

Amazon seeks a Senior Finance Analyst in its marketing finance team. The candidate would be a co-pilot in driving finance partnership for various marketing channels of Amazon, own P&L cost, drive a high bar on controllership. The profile includes, amongst other areas, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and helping business in decision support through data analysis & sharp insights.

The Sr Finance Analyst position is based in Bangalore.

The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical and have the demonstrated ability to effectively manage finances of a high-growth business including:
- Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling. Presenting recommendations to business leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives
- Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls.
- Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with business leaders to ensure effective finance and cost management.
- Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals like vendor terms improvement (margins/ credit), operational costs and contribute to Free cash flows
- Manage financial planning and analysis, forecasting product lines using the key input levers to the business.
- Facilitate weekly/ monthly/ quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow through with category leader on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time
- Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly and annual financial-book close process for the category.
- Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Chartered Accountant or MBA (Finance)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
- Prior experience of working in a business finance domain

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