Senior Financial Analyst, North America Middle Mile FP&A

DESCRIPTION

This is an exciting opportunity to partner cross-functionally to ensure informed decision making, innovation and sustainability in processes for the Middle Mile (Sort Center/Surface Transportation) network.

Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.

The role focuses on supporting reporting and financial planning cycles and identifying continuous improvement opportunities across internal and external stakeholders to define, design and maintain performance measurements, reporting and reviews.

A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to do financial analyses for executive-level business leaders to support a network of sites, identify high priority projects to improve results and drive cost reductions with stakeholders, create new measures for business effectiveness, and recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability.

A successful candidate will be able to effectively influence business partners, provide sound and thoughtful decision-making, and manage competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. Candidates should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with leadership is common.

Key job responsibilities

• Create weekly and monthly reports that provide clear, meaningful and actionable insights about the performance of the business which is shared with dozens of senior leaders.
• Responsible for delivering weekly/monthly financial close, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidations utilizing financial systems and advance excel functions
• Provide financial support to business partners on its key initiatives that improve the quality of deliveries, speed of delivery and/or reduce costs
• Root cause analysis and uncover core issues using data, and provide guidance for business partners and data analytics to improve data quality to make better decision

A day in the life

A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to lead root-cause analysis and uncover core issues to drive cost reductions with stakeholders, manage, evaluate and create meaningful business reporting, and build and maintain complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• MBA, or CPA
• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 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)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.