Senior Financial Analyst - NA Operations & Strategy

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 74,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's North America Center of Excellence (HCE) team seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support headcount and cost planning across NA Operations. You will work with finance and operations leaders to drive standardization and automation across multiple business lines.

You will build complex models, interact with executives, and influence decisions using large-scale data mining tools. The role covers planning, reporting, and policy playbooks to optimize resource deployment and business

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements process improvement framework to remediate gaps.
• Contributes to weekly/monthly financial close.
• Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently across a team. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager.
• Ability to interact with a variety of data sources to assess incomplete or inaccurate data and drive scalable mechanisms to understand root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
• Drives own self-development in the finance community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise.
• Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of the team.
• Balances work life harmony across the team by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influence to new team members.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon's North America Center of Excellence (HCE) team seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support headcount and cost planning across NA Operations. You will work with finance and operations leaders to drive standardization and automation across multiple business lines.

You will build complex models, interact with executives, and influence decisions using large-scale data mining tools. The role covers planning, reporting, and policy playbooks to optimize resource deployment and business