Sr. Finance Analyst, EU Amazon AIR

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a highly analytical Senior Financial Analyst to support the Surface Transportation team. In this role, you will influence the development and execution of the transportation network while collaborating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a strong financial background, experience with SQL, and a proven track record in process improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field.
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining.

Responsibilities

• Manage the financial planning / budgeting process.
• Develop and report accurate financial and business metrics.
• Monitor and enhance existing processes and controls in Business and Finance.

Skills

SQL

Financial Analysis

Process Improvement

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

MBA or CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Oracle

Cognos

Essbase

Job description

Sr. Finance Analyst, Surface Transportation

Amazon is seeking a highly analytical and resourceful Senior Financial Analyst to support our Surface Transportation team. 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, fulfilment, 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
Surface Transportation's 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 Surface Transportation's 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.

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)
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- 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 in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- Experience working with stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA, or CPA
- 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)
- Experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment

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