About this role
Amazon seeks a Finance Analyst to be a key member of its marketplace finance team. The person would play a key role in driving the business agenda and would work as copilot in delivering the business results and will drive the P&L for one of our business verticals. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and to help business in decision support through data analysis & business insight.
Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will demonstrate analytical thinking and will need to effectively manage finances of a high-growth business including:
- Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling.
- Presenting recommendations to business leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives
- Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls.
- Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with business and finance leaders to ensure effective performance reviews.
- Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals and contribute to Free cash flows
- Manage financial planning, analysis, and forecasting using the key input levers to the business.
- Facilitate weekly/ monthly/ quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow through with business and finance partners on actionable items for improving metrics over a period of time
- Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly and annual financial-book close process for the category.
- Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
- Develop tools that deliver insightful analysis and reporting to support decision-making and monitor performance.
- Will be skilled in extracting insights from large volumes of data, and effectively communicate with business partners in how to act on theses insights.
- Interact with Finance teams across other Emerging Stores and other finance functions (example Accounting, and FP&A).