Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Fuse Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Fuse & Mobile Business Development (MBD) Finance Team is seeking a hands-on, analytical and strategic Senior Financial Analyst (SFA), who is passionate about accelerating Amazon’s growth. This is a unique opportunity to join a centralized corporate business development team working on strategic partnerships to accelerate Amazon’s flywheel by distributing Amazon’s digital services. Specifically, the Amazon Fuse & Mobile Business Development (MBD) team is a group chartered with distribution of Amazon’s digital services through partnerships with Mobile Operators, MVPDs (video distributors) and OEMs worldwide. This position requires a candidate who can successfully tackle multiple projects in a start-up environment. The right individual will have exceptional finance skills, business partnering skills, and strong business judgment. You will need to work collaboratively with internal finance and business teams to understand their business priorities and economics. We dive deep and provide thoughtful and rigorous analysis, yet are creative, adaptable and action-oriented to drive growth by directly influencing leaders’ decision-making. The ideal candidate is a first-principles thinker, enjoys solving complex problems, dealing with ambiguity, and working effectively with cross-functional teams. The candidate also thrives in fast-paced settings that are constantly evolving.

Requirements

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or MBA

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated effective communication and writing skills in working with senior finance and business leaders
• Exceptional analytical skills and advanced knowledge of Excel with demonstrated ability to build financial models and create business cases
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated financial and/or analytical experience including familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and/or data interpretation and analysis, and/or accounting principles and concepts
• Ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing and often ambiguous environment

Responsibilities

• Influence leaders by delivering actionable financial insights that drive business performance.
• Build financial models and business cases in order to maximize the strategic impact of the MBD partnerships including profitability and ROI analyses, and risk assessment.
• Collaborate with business teams on creating new methods in assessing incremental value in strategic partnerships and customer segments.
• Own WW FP&A process for Preloads including Guidance, OP1/2, 3YF as well as month-end partner expense accruals
• Lead Monthly Business Review (MBR) process, delivering commentary on trends, variances, key drivers, business performance.
• Track and report on headcount (HC) and Operating Expenses (OpEx)
• Drive continuous reporting improvement on the monthly financial and operational metrics
• Provide a strong controllership environment and improve controls over operational and financial metrics
• Be go-to-person for financial questions, inputs and queries for Preloads business.
• Help finance team drive standardization, simplify processes and build scalable solutions.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior