Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon
Finance, WW Stores FP&A
$60.2-128.8k
+ Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
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
+ Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a self-starter with a keen attention to detail, a track record of influencing business partners with data-driven decision making, and the ability to move fast
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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
- 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
- WW Stores IPAT Finance seeks a Sr Financial Analyst to support with the planning, reporting and analysis for headcount and opex centrally for WW Stores business
- This role supports financial analyses that guide decision-making amount senior business leaders
- They will partner with multiple teams across WW Stores, as well as Finance teams in other orgs, to provide insights, build mechanisms and tools to surface key analytics, dive deep into large sets of data
- Communication and collaboration are key, as the individual will interact with numerous functions and teams within Amazon
- In addition to reporting on business results and long-term planning, this role provides an opportunity to partner with financial systems and other teams on data-driven projects driving product enhancements and financial insights for senior leadership
- Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon
- Supporting building financial models and KPIs to review monthly results, quarterly forecasts, and annual plans, make recommendations on process improvements that will help to deliver results, and influence leaders throughout Amazon
- Creating and maintaining insightful reports when explaining monthly and quarterly variances between actuals and plan
- Deliver monthly financial close reporting deck and planning cycle reports. Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets
- Performing Ad hoc analysis and projects to support leadership initiatives
- Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes
- Partnering with other teams and business partners to produce standardize reporting and forecasting mechanisms. Driving process standardization, prioritizing improvements that increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting
- Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from manager
- Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team
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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