Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon
Shopping Finance
$60.2-128.8k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$60.2-128.8k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
Desirable
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos or Essbase), SQL and Data warehouse
- 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst to join the Finance Team supporting and partnering with the Amazon Search team in the Shopping org
- We at Shopping finance are at the intersection of Amazon Retail and Shopping Technology. We are insightful, influential, inquisitive, and analytical
- We collaborate across organizations, celebrate and leverage diverse perspectives, and support our peers to excel both at work and away from work
- As a Sr. Financial Analyst, you will work closely with finance and business leaders to develop financial models, provide analytical insights to assist in evaluating new business concepts, turn insights into operational measurements, and identify paths to improve the planning and reporting process
- Collect, analyze and manage quantitative data to create meaningful analyses and build financial models that drive business decisions
- Create, improve, and maintain reports for key financial and operation metrics
- Analyze monthly financial and business metrics, report on key trends vs. plan, peel back the layers to understand underlying drivers of financial performance
- Perform Month end close related activities
- Execute monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc operating expense reports for the Search org
- Partner with finance technology partners to identify opportunities to create efficiencies, streamline reporting and planning of infrastructure expenses and drive automation
- Partner with business teams to enable success in the annual Goals process
- Drive continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of best practices, and collaborate with other teams
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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