Senior Financial Analyst, World-Wide Operations Sustainability Finance

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to drive sustainability initiatives and influence strategic decisions. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with various business units globally, leading financial analyses and guiding projects that align with carbon reduction goals. Your expertise in financial metrics and reporting will be crucial in communicating business results to senior leadership. This is an exciting opportunity for a finance professional passionate about innovation and sustainability, eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in financial analysis and data mining with advanced SQL skills.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or CPA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial analysis for sustainability projects and engage with partner teams.
• Create and maintain financial metrics and communicate results to senior leaders.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Data Analysis

Process Improvement

Project Management

Communication Skills

Quantitative Analysis

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics, or Business

MBA or CPA

Six Sigma Black Belt

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Oracle

SAP

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Job description

Are you interested in pioneering new products and programs to help Amazon become the industry leader in sustainable operations? Are you interested in the science of sustainability and passionate about innovating on behalf of our customers to solve this global problem? Amazon is seeking a high performing Senior Finance Analyst to partner with the World-Wide Sustainability Operations team supporting our carbon emissions reduction goals.

As a Senior Financial Analyst of WW Operations Sustainability Finance (WWOSF), you will be a finance leader partnering across various business units and geographies (US, EU, JP, ROW) within operations as well as with the central Worldwide Amazon Sustainability team. You will identify opportunities, lead projects, provide guidance and ensure proper reporting is in place for the new and evolving carbon reporting requirements. As a key member of the WWOSF team, you will directly influence business decisions including investments, pricing models, and long term strategy. This is an exciting role for a Senior Financial Analyst who enjoys influencing both strategy and tactical execution, has a passion for innovation and thrives from working with senior leadership.

Key job responsibilities

1. Leading financial analysis and due diligence for sustainability projects
2. Engaging with partner teams to align on long term strategy and consolidate carbon emissions forecast
3. Running financial review meetings with business groups and working with business managers to quantify and report on initiatives and projects
4. Creating, improving, and maintaining financial metrics, reports and scorecards
5. Communicating financial and business results including variance analyses to senior business leaders

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
2. Six Sigma Black Belt
3. Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
4. Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
5. Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
6. Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
7. Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
8. Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
9. Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
10. MBA, or CPA
11. Knowledge of Tableau
12. Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
13. 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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