Amazon - Senior Finance Analyst

Senior Finance Analyst

Amazon seeks a Senior 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 own 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.

The Sr Finance Analyst position is based in Bangalore.

The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical and have the demonstrated ability 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 leaders to ensure effective finance and cost management.

- Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals like vendor terms improvement (margins/ credit), operational costs and contribute to Free cash flows

- Manage financial planning and analysis, forecasting product lines using the key input levers to the business.

- Facilitate weekly/ monthly/ quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow through with category leader on actionable items for improving business 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.

Internal job description:

Amazon seeks a Senior 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 own 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.

The Senior Finance Analyst position is based in Bangalore.

The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical and have the demonstrated ability 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 leaders to ensure effective finance and cost management.

- Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals like vendor terms improvement (margins/ credit), operational costs and contribute to Free cash flows

- Manage financial planning and analysis, forecasting product lines using the key input levers to the business.

- Facilitate weekly/ monthly/ quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow through with category leader on actionable items for improving business 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.

- 4+ years of Business Partnering Finance exp

- 4 yrs + yrs of exp on participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

- MBA, or CA

- Knowledge of Tableau

- 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)