Senior Financial Analyst, Sub Same Day and Grocery Online - Delivery Finance

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Do you want to be part of an organization that is designing and launching new
business models across the world? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex
problems for a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on customers and
working backwards? If so, the Amazon Grocery Delivery Finance team is looking
for a proactive team member with a can-do approach and record of delivering
results.

Delivery Finance NA is responsible for last mile transportation spend across
Amazon Fresh (FCs) and Whole Foods Market. Our Finance teams partner closely
with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business,
drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions,
with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while
driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses. Our teams
experiment, fail fast, learn, and scale rapidly, while maintaining a data-driven
decision-making culture.

The Grocery Online Delivery Finance team seeks a Senior Financial Analyst. This
role is responsible for key forecasting, performance measurement and metrics
reconciliation processes and to develop short and long range business plan.

This role partners closely with a broad range of global finance and business
leaders in order to design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and
reports on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the
business.

The successful candidate will influence business owners, support thoughtful
decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They bring
excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role
provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with
large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects
that maximize results for key stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

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

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps
• Delivers weekly/monthly financial close.
• Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets.
• Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
• Communicates data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.
• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.

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: Mid Level