Senior Financial Analyst, WW Operations Central FP&A

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

At Amazon, we're working to be the world's most customer-centric company, and our Operations network is renowned for being world-class, delivering packages to customers across the globe. Our Finance teams don't just manage our books; they help drive the company forward by partnering closely with global cross-functional teams to support the growth of this rapidly expanding network.

Amazon's WW Operations Finance FP&A team is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Operations Insights, Planning, Analytics and Technology (IPAT) team. This role supports senior finance leaders with a focus on financial reporting and analysis, automation of manual processes, and contributing to governance and data quality initiatives.

As a member of the IPAT team, you will work alongside World Wide Operations teams to support scalable processes and controls, contributing to the governance framework while collaborating with stakeholders across operations, supply chain, finance, and other support teams. You'll use data analysis to help ensure leaders have accurate, up-to-date information to make sound financial decisions. Your work will directly support faster delivery times, improved customer experience, and network expansion that serves millions of customers daily.

The successful candidate will have strong communication and analytical skills, with the ability to dive deep into data and clearly communicate findings to managers and senior managers. This role requires working with limited guidance in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a growing comfort with ambiguity and a high bar on professional integrity. You should be passionate about using data to solve difficult problems and eager to learn across processes ranging from Finance standard work to the functionality and design of tools. You'll be supported by experienced finance leaders and a collaborative team environment as you develop your skills and expand your impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Build financial reports and models to address difficult business questions, converting data into actionable findings and recommendations that influence data-driven decision-making.
• Proactively dive deep to ensure reporting accuracy by auditing your work and cross-functional data sources, identifying root causes of discrepancies, and driving resolution while insisting on the highest standards.
• Understand and apply internal controls, financial processes, and regulatory compliance to your business area, proposing and implementing improvements to remediate control gaps.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting and financial processes, building scalable solutions that reduce defects, improve accuracy, and free up capacity for higher-value analysis.
• Independently deliver projects with limited oversight to scale operations, improve controllership, or create value-add enhancements, prioritizing work and creating structure from ambiguous scope into actionable steps.
• Communicate financial insights clearly and concisely to Finance and non-Finance partners, developing strong working relationships and driving alignment through effective modeling and reporting.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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