Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon
North America Sales Finance
$73.6-128.8k
+ Sign-on payments and restricted stock units
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$73.6-128.8k
+ Sign-on payments and restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Successful candidates will have a high degree of intellectual curiosity and a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale
- The successful candidate will also have the ability to influence senior stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills and the capacity to prioritize effectively while dealing with ambiguity
- 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
Desirable
- 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)
What the job involves
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its North America Sales Finance team to support the Canada sales team
- This is an exciting opportunity to become a part of one of the most dynamic and fastest growing organizations at Amazon
- The role will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to support and drive one of the largest North America businesses in AWS
- The candidate will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting topline trends to monitor state of the business health, deep-diving variances to uncover operating insights, collaborating on strategic investment decisions to optimize financial returns, establishing/enhancing governance mechanisms, and driving planning and forecasting rhythms
- This role operates as a CFO for the Canada business; not simply delivering analysis, but bringing the insight, the recommendation, and the business impact that shapes decisions before they are made
- Collaborate with senior business stakeholders on revenue and strategy investment decisions that balance growth objectives with financial returns
- Serve as a strategic business partner to sales leaders by pairing financial analysis with clear recommendations and articulated business impact that shape business strategy
- Invent and design scalable detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health
- Deep dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies
- Own planning and forecasting for NAMER Financial Services business and influence business stakeholders to ensure initiatives are aligned with broader organizational objectives
- Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implications
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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