Senior Financial Analyst , GFS AWS

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Global Financial Services (GFS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority.

We are looking for a Financial Analyst II (individual contributor) to perform business specific Financial Planning & Analysis activities. The person will build financial and operational reports that influence decision-making. This person will become *the* trusted business advisor by sharing findings with business leaders, supporting them by providing data analysis and business insights.

The successful candidate will remain objective when communicating financial data results, provide clear and concise summaries, and effectively answer questions in detail to drive results. The person will be in charge of driving communication at the senior manager level, and articulate finance issues to non-Finance partners.

This person will be comfortable working with cross-functional teams and demonstrating strong leadership skills. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.

Business Responsibilities

• Use the expertise in the collection, analysis and management of quantitative financial data, creating reports for weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly analysis and financial forecasts

• Controllership will be top priority. You will work with a variety of data sources and will identify basic control risks, evaluate impact, propose changes, and implement improvements to remediate gaps

• Manage KPI reporting and Analysis

• Partner and influence the stakeholders on the definition of strategic management of AWS Services Financial performance

• Provide insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews on a timely manner

• Monitor forecast accuracy, understand drivers of variances, and provide insightful commentary & analysis for both current period and future periods

• Partner with your business teams, and lead the developing of weekly / monthly financial close activities, planning, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to your business partners

• Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives

• Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls

• Identify opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes; lead projects to execute on those opportunities
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) 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
• 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CMA 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)
• Knowledge of advanced skills in Excel as well as any data visualization tools like Tableau or similar BI tools (familiarity with Tableau preferred)

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