6+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- Strong English language, oral and written 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 Amazon Air 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
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- Advanced SQL, Tableau, Power Query, and any other technical skills.
- 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 work successfully in an ambiguous environment.
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams.