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Financial Analyst
Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States
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DESCRIPTION
Amazon seeks an experienced Financial Analyst to support the Business Development team. You will own a key role delivering financial and operational analyses, surfacing opportunities to reduce costs and innovate, manage projects, improve processes and help take the business and the finance team to the next level. The individual must have the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across multiple business units. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively to solve data problems, implement new reporting solutions, and deliver successfully against high operational standards. The right candidate will be self-motivated, have strong intellectual curiosity and a solid understanding of financials. The candidate must be able to balance competing priorities to consistently meet deadlines and provide well-vetted reporting and insight, backed by data driven analysis.
Responsibilities include:
• Supporting the development of continuously-evolving automated forecast models and methodologies, owning the quantitative analysis of the performance.
• Analyzing trends, formulating projections, and evaluating savings initiatives.
• Assisting in developing monthly/quarterly financial reporting (actual and forecast) and annual budgeting.
• Managing and developing scalable financial tools or reports that align, and simplify, monthly business reviews, annual planning, and forecasting processes
The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following abilities and characteristics:
• Be highly analytical and detail oriented
• Quickly build credibility and trust with internal customers
• Demonstrate work ethic based on a desire to exceed expectations
• Excellent leadership, communication, and persuasion skills
• Influential communication skills, both verbal and written
• Building scalable financial processes and metrics by working with functional leaders and other finance functions
• Developing new ideas and creative solutions
• Successful in an ambiguous environment
• Comfortable with tight deadlines and prioritize workload
• Work regularly with remote teams
• Work on cross-functional teams
• Focus on customers and work backwards
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Business and/or similar discipline with analytical bias
• 3+ years of relevant financial analysis experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Proven proficiency with Excel
• Analytical skills and an ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase and/or Cognos)
• Demonstrated financial and/or analytical experience including familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis and/or data interpretation and analysis.
• Solid experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis
• Highly analytical, detail oriented and a demonstrated strong sense of business management; proven ability to develop new ideas and ability to deliver solutions
• Ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing and often ambiguous environment; effective multi-tasking skills are vital
• Demonstrated effective communication and presentation skills working with peers and various
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.