Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Business Finance

Amazon • Austin, TX

18h • $66,900 - $117,100

About The Position

Entering the business to business (B2B) market is one of Amazon’s most exciting growth opportunities, and since launching in 2015, Amazon Business (AB) already has more than 6 million customers WW. The business is growing fast and requires talented finance professionals to help it scale. Amazon Business is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst to support the WW Small Business team. This role involves partnering with key business leaders to identify opportunities for growth, providing timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership. The Senior Financial Analyst will lead finance activities, create scalable reporting mechanisms, and develop new frameworks required to grow Small Business spend. AB Finance offers a rich learning experience and an opportunity for professional development. As part of a young business, the role challenges individuals to weigh in on decisions with long-term strategic impact and produce insightful analytics to accelerate growth. The position involves close collaboration with business partners, exposure to senior leaders, and the opportunity to become a subject matter expert. The team seeks individuals who can engage business partners to drive results and embrace the challenge of building structure and supporting high growth.

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
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy 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

• 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 creating process improvements with automation and analysis
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Finance Business Partner to the Small Business customer segment. Partner with key stakeholders across the US, EU and JP.
• Solve complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, business insights, and recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders
• Standardize and track effectiveness of promotional spend in order to optimize promotions strategy
• Provide financial support to key business initiatives to increase customer engagement
• Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives
• Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc data analysis, and financial modeling using a broad range of tools including Excel, SQL, and Cognos
• Transform existing financial processes using Artificial Intelligence

Benefits

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