Senior Financial Analyst, EU Operations FP&A

Job description

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The right financial and business decisions have made Amazon what it is today. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you’ll help us optimize our finances so that we can enhance our customer experience even more and navigate the fast-changing business environment. This role is an opportunity to act as the key finance leader for a strategic programs and get really involved with shaping our business. You’ll lead others and use insights to show senior stakeholders ways that we can move forward with our business ambitions.

Key job responsibilities
- Build financial models to drive business decisions and make judgement calls on challenges using your understanding of Amazon’s cost structure
- Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issues
- Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency, and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions
- Own the financial and operational plan and financial reporting, create scalable processes and monitor teams for accuracy
- Onboard, develop and mentor team members in areas of financial reporting for accuracy, create best practice materials and promote knowledge sharing

A day in the life
Your typical day involves consolidating weekly or monthly financials for Cost-to-Serve initiatives, connecting with initiative owners to gather updates and validate data accuracy. You'll prepare insightful analyses for Management Business Reviews (MBRs) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), focusing on trends and performance metrics. A significant portion of your time is dedicated to leading Quadrant reporting for Cost-to-Serve, requiring close partnership with Operations teams to ensure alignment and accurate representation of financial impacts.

About the team
Our team uniquely bridges Operations Finance and Stores organizations, owning Cost-to-Serve strategies and cost allocations that span multiple business units. We are the only team within Operations Finance that creates this valuable connection between these two critical organizations.

Our mission centers on providing financial clarity, driving cost efficiency, and enabling data-driven decision making across the business. We take pride in our ability to influence strategic decisions through robust financial analysis and cross-functional partnerships. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact while gaining exposure to multiple aspects of the business.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- 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)

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