Amazon - Business Analyst

Job summary

About Amazon.com:

At Amazon, we're working to be the world's most customer-centric company. Driving innovation on behalf of customers is core to our mission and the IPAT team within the Finance organization is responsible for partnering with the business to deliver on this mission. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most strategic, impactful, and fastest growing areas within Amazon.

About Team:

Amazon India's Consumer Insights, Planning, Analysis and Technology team (IPAT) provides a unique vantage point into everything happening within Amazon India. Our team provides strategic support to the India CFO and senior leadership on enterprise-wide planning, analysis & insights and reporting.

Role Description :

We are looking for a highly analytical self-starter to join us as a Business Analyst (BA). The candidate will provide timely, relevant insights and will own the production and delivery of a suite of standard reports, tools regularly used by the organization to make key business decisions. This will involve:

1. Creating, supporting and continuously improving reports and metrics that support the business teams within the specified timelines

2.Converting data into digestible business intelligence and actionable information using tools like Quick sight/Tableau

3.Shaping and delivering key metrics, reports, and indicators on time by which our business will assess its performance. Eg. Topline, Daily sales Flash, P0

4. Diving deep into large data sets to answer specific business questions using Excel, SQL and other data manipulation languages

5.Working directly with WW teams to leverage on global tools (Eg. Fortune, TM1) to support India specific requirements and improvement for insights.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented and driven to provide insightful and timely information to customers. The candidate should have strong communication skills and ability to prioritize effectively to ensure timelines are met. The candidate should have a high bar on accuracy of the numbers as these are critical business metrics basis which decisions are taken by various teams. This candidate should also have the ability to invent and simplify and work effectively with cross-functional teams and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and high paced environment and offers significant opportunities for growth.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 1+ years of experience in financial/business analysis

- Experience with SQL or ETL

- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 1+ years of experience as an analyst or engineer in the data/BI space

- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quick sight, or similar tools

- Experience with SQL & demonstrated ability in writing and tuning SQL scripts

- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related field

- Experience with reporting tools like Tableau or other BI packages & advanced excel (VBA etc.)

- Solid communication skills and team player

- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize workload

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, or Mathematics

- Experience using very large datasets

- 3+ years prior experience in a BI role with a technology company or financial institution

- Knowledge of scripting for automation (e.g., Python)

- Experience working with large-scale data mining & reporting tools (i.e. SQL, Tableau, Cognos & BI) is a strong plus