Senior Financial Analyst, NA Stores Finance

Description

Want to help build Earth’s leading e-commerce finance team? At Amazon, it’s our goal to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

To support our continued growth, we are looking for the most exceptional finance professionals to join our North America Stores Financial Planning & Analysis team. Our team provides strategic support to NA Stores CFO, CEO and senior leadership on planning, analysis, and reporting. As the central place the company looks to for an understanding of financial performance, we play a major role in driving business decisions.

In this role, you will play a key role in processes essential to the heartbeat of Amazon Stores Finance, including month-end-close, quarter-end-close, topline reporting, and developing best practices for FP&A which have impact across the company. This role works closely with the WW Stores, Insights, Planning, Analytics, Technology (IPAT) and the business finance teams. The Senior Financial Analyst drives key projects and will be a key business partner to the business finance teams, Finance Operations, Accounting, and Tax. We are looking for an experienced finance professional who is adaptable, capable of exercising high judgment, making informed decisions and insists on the highest standards.

Key job responsibilities
Key resource in month-end, quarter-end reporting for NA Stores. Specifically, this role is responsible for creating the NA Stores MEC and Plan documents, consolidating and analyzing submissions received by finance teams across Amazon, and assisting with the creation of the final meeting documents that will be shared with Amazon Stores most senior leaders. The Senior Financial Analyst will dive deep to gain a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of month-end results and deliver insightful analyses and narratives to Amazon’s executive team members.

Own and prepare quarterly Outlook for NA Stores.

Leverage Cognos/TM1, Apliqo, and other corporate financial systems to support deep dive analysis and results summarization in response to CFO/CEO needs.

Engage with business finance teams to support understanding and timeliness of financial deliverables.

Obsess over leveraging AI to drive efficiencies in our processes.

Partner with the business and other Corporate FP&A teams to create workback calendars that support key meeting dates and ensure adequate review and preparation time.

Basic Qualifications

- 3 years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 3 years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 3 years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

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
- 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.