At amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Operations is at the heart of what we do, delivering millions of packages each day and fulfilling customer orders from all over the world. Amazon is seeking a financial analyst to support critical functions for amazon logistics – our rapidly expanding internal delivery operation, purpose-built to achieve and exceed the delivery quality and speed demands of amazon customers.
this financial analyst will be primarily responsible for business partnering, decision support, controllership, and operations cost reduction. This role requires extensive cross-functional partnership with various retail, transportation, and finance teams to identify best practices across the network and lead cost improvement efforts for operations.
key responsibilities
1. identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps.
2. delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced ms excel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
3. uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
4. identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
5. makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.
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
* experience with advanced use of sql for data mining and business intelligence
* bachelor's degree
* english advanced
preferred qualifications
* 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
* mba, or cpa
* knowledge of tableau
* 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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