Senior Financial Analyst, World-Wide Operations Sustainability Finance

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a Senior Financial Analyst to join their World-Wide Operations Sustainability Finance team. This exciting role involves leading financial analyses, collaborating with various business units to drive sustainability initiatives, and influencing key business decisions. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing financial reporting and metrics, while also engaging with senior leadership to align on long-term strategies. If you're passionate about sustainability and have a strong background in finance, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking environment focused on innovation and improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or relevant experience required.
• Experience with SQL and financial performance indicators essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial analysis for sustainability projects and engage with partner teams.
• Create and maintain financial metrics, reports, and scorecards.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Quantitative Analysis

Process Improvement

Automation

SQL

KPI Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics or Business

MBA or CPA

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Oracle

SAP

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Job description

Senior Financial Analyst, World-Wide Operations Sustainability Finance

Job ID: 2947222 | Amazon Business EU SARL (UK)

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

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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