Financial Analyst III - AMZ9790443

Amazon•North Reading, MA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves gathering and analyzing economic, financial, and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management. The Financial Analyst III will prepare deliverables for internal and external financial reporting, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals. Key responsibilities include identifying and driving process improvements, understanding and communicating accounting principles (GAAP), and providing guidance to junior analysts. The role also requires documenting processes, assessing and improving internal controls, overseeing the monthly close process, and managing complex cross-functional projects independently. The analyst will be responsible for creating and maintaining reports, tracking down data sources, validating data, and analyzing variances between systems and reports.

Requirements

Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related analytical field and three years of experience in finance or a related analytical occupation.
Alternatively, a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related analytical field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
One year of experience in building and managing financial models for business forecasting and variance analysis using advanced excel spreadsheet techniques such as vlookups and pivot tables.
One year of experience in analyzing business processes.
One year of experience in designing and implementing controls.
One year of experience in financial reporting.
One year of experience in managing cross-functional financial projects including project design, requirements, and implementation.

Responsibilities

Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management.
Prepare various deliverables to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals.
Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes, reporting and controls, and drive positive change across the organization.
Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate the application of GAAP to peers and business partners.
Participate in writing white papers to support a given accounting position.
Provide management and direction to junior analysts, including overseeing and reviewing reporting and Excel spreadsheet work papers.
Document processes.
Assess internal controls, identify gaps in the control process, and design additional controls to solve deficiencies.
Oversee the monthly close process working closely with finance team to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management.
Act independently to complete multiple cross-functional projects with complex objectives.
Create and maintain reports.
Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports.