Senior Financial Analyst, Design & Construction, GREF FP&A

Amazon•Arlington, VA

21d

About The Position

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, creative and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. Finance is all about the numbers…unless you work at Amazon; it is about knowing the numbers and so much more. As finance leaders, we’re not just a reporting function, but a core part of the business, developing strong partnerships and creating value through insightful analyses. If you want to be a part of a fast moving, dynamic initiative then this is the role for you! Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support our Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team. The GREF team develops and manages a large portfolio of owned office properties and leases across the globe with offices varying stages of the building life cycle, from ground up construction, to initial fit out, operations, and decommissioning. This role will be primarily responsible for financial analysis and reporting of capital expenditures, supporting preparation of annual budgeting and forecasting processes, and controllership of our North American and Latin American corporate office portfolio. This FP&A position will partner with multiple internal and external stakeholders to provide timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership to this high-growth organization This position requires a proactive, highly motivated individual with an aptitude for process improvement, who can drive automation efforts towards integration of financial systems to upstream data sources and input from vendors.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes

Nice To Haves

MBA, or CPA
Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
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)
Experience in Real Estate and/or Facility Management a strong plus

Responsibilities

Detailed forecasting of construction projects at a Purchase Order and Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) code level
Coordinate with Project Managers and provide controllership over individual projects
Benchmark costs of similar projects
Driving quarterly, annual and multi-year forecasting and budgeting process.
Lead monthly reviews of financial and operating metrics, analyze variances to forecast
Be an expert in managing data in financial systems and develop automation programs to create insightful reports to drive business improvement
Produce regular metrics reviews, as well as analytical support through deep-dive analysis
Improve and further develop metrics decks that include relevant KPIs
Liaise with various accounting teams on new programs and initiatives
Train business teams on finance processes, roll out new programs, and communicate platform changes
Take ownership for budgeting and forecasting for capital expenditures
Provide analytical support to key business partners