Senior Financial Analyst, Global Procurement Finance

Description

Global Procurement Organization Finance is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support business leaders managing $7B of spend, helping drive negotiations and deliver cost savings to Amazon Operations. This is an opportunity to work closely with a results-driven procurement team, providing data-driven insights that support vendor selection and contract terms. This role requires the Senior Financial Analyst to develop analytical capabilities and financial expertise while building foundational skills in procurement finance.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong analytical capabilities, financial expertise, and the ability to solve difficult problems with limited guidance. You will optimize processes within the team, support the Procurement Category team with financial analyses, and provide clear recommendations backed by data. You will learn to navigate across teams to identify stakeholders, develop expertise in procurement finance, and contribute to team goals while building skills in strategic thinking and business partnership.

Global Procurement Organization Finance provides opportunities to develop expertise in business finance while working on meaningful procurement challenges. The role offers exposure to complex business problems, the chance to contribute to team goals, and the opportunity to build skills that will prepare you for future leadership roles.

Key job responsibilities
- Support business partners during negotiations and throughout the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, providing financial analyses that inform vendor selection and contract terms
- Execute financial analyses that illuminate cost drivers and trade-offs, supporting procurement decisions with clear data and insights
- Support business reviews with senior leaders, preparing materials and contributing to discussions on procurement strategies
- Solve difficult problems with limited guidance, learning when to escalate and developing solutions that meet immediate needs
- Optimize team processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement, implementing solutions that enhance efficiency
- Build expertise in the procurement landscape, developing knowledge of spend patterns and sourcing opportunities

A day in the life
You'll work closely with Category leaders managing $7B in spend, supporting negotiations with analyses that inform contract decisions. Your work will contribute to vendor selection and contract terms, providing the business team with data they need during procurement activities. You'll support business reviews with senior leaders, helping prepare materials that clarify trade-offs and support procurement strategies. Working with limited guidance, you'll tackle difficult problems while learning when to escalate and how to balance competing priorities. You'll optimize team processes while building your expertise in procurement finance, developing skills that will prepare you for greater impact.

About the team
The Global Procurement Organization (GPO) is responsible for the source-to-pay process for non-inventory goods and services needed to facilitate Amazon's supply chain. Our Finance team partners with GPO and focuses on continuously improving its scalability and efficiency. We deliver analysis to impact pricing frameworks for future contract negotiations and the RFP process for GPO categories for both Operations' Capex and Opex. GPO Finance is engaged throughout each stage of the procurement lifecycle.

Basic Qualifications

- 3 years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 3 years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

Preferred Qualifications

- 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.