5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 5+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Strong English language, oral and written skills.
- Advanced financial analysis and financial modeling skills.
- Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with business partners.
- Fluency in Microsoft Excel and/or SQL, VBA, Microsoft Access, Oracle Financials, Cognos.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA is seeking an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to support our LATAM FP&A team.
We are looking for a Financial Analyst II to perform business specific Financial Planning & Analysis activities. The person will build financial and operational reports, and will own financial reports that influence decision-making. This person will become *the* trusted business advisor by sharing findings with business leaders, supporting them by providing data analysis and business insight.
Business Responsibilities
- Use the expertise in the collection, analysis and management of quantitative financial data, creating reports for monthly P&L analysis and financial forecasts
- Controllership will be your top priority. You will work with a variety of data sources and will identify basic control risks, evaluate impact, propose changes, and implement improvements to remediate gaps
- Manage monthly and quarterly forecast for both OPEX and headcount
- Partner and influence the stakeholders on the definition of strategic management of HC
- Provide insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews on a timely manner
- Monitor forecast accuracy, understand drivers of variances, and provide insightful commentary & analysis for both current period and future periods
- Partner with your business teams, and lead the developing of weekly / monthly financial close activities, planning, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to your business partners
- Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives
- Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls
- Identify opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes; lead projects to execute on those opportunities
Heredia, H, CRI
- 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA degree is preferred.
- Proven ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
- Advanced problem solving and root cause analysis combined with proven ability to communicate those analysis.
- Proven ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment.
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams.
- Customer focus and professional demeanor.
