Job Description
Description Are you passionate about driving change and delivering results?
Amazon's Customer Fulfillment network is renowned for being world-class, delivering packages to customers across the world. Our Finance teams don’t just manage our books; they help drive the company forward by partnering closely with cross-functional teams to support the growth of this rapidly expanding network; driving controllership, innovation, productivity, and cost-effective operations across the network in a fast paced environment.
We are seeking Senior Financial Analysts to join the team as a trusted finance partner for multiple fulfillment centers to drive cost controllership and provide business insights and/or to drive business planning and reporting for the Canadian Fulfillment network. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. Regular collaboration with executives and various business units across Amazon will allow you the opportunity to exhibit your verbal and written communication skills. Our Senior Financial Analysts partner closely with a broad range of Finance and Business leaders, design and develop Business Reviews, support customer and business insights, own data modeling, ad-hoc reporting, and long term analytical and statistical projects. They support cross-functional stakeholders and work with multiple sources and a wide range of data technologies (e.g. PowerBI, Quicksight, SQL etc.). They focus on identifying areas of improvement in the reporting and analysis of business performance and work with relevant stakeholders to deploy solutions.
The ideal candidate will have experience developing metrics and business analytics, has the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies, and a has strong understanding of Data Warehouse (DW) concepts. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should be able to work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and implement reporting solutions.
Key job responsibilities
- Utilize solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, and drive improvements
- Manage development of weekly and monthly financial reviews, forecasting, and reporting models and their continuous innovation and communication to Financial and Operations partners
- Coordinate business leaders and FP&A to prepare a business narrative to tie with the financial bridge
- Create standardized models to calculate impact of business drivers on efficiency of labor
- Identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.
- Have ability to independently influence and drive outputs, meet deadlines, and set clear expectations and roadmaps.
- An ability and interest in working in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment
- Take part in hiring, developing, and mentoring activities while you seek value, and leverage diverse perspectives
- Contribute to work life harmony by becoming a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.
- Utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues
- Proactively identify and implement solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify financial processes
Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
Preferred Qualifications - MBA, or CPA
- 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)
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
- Experience in delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
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Company - Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services, ULC
Job ID: A2975629
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