Financial Analyst, MEA 3P Finance

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). Basic qualifications - 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience - 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience - 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Economics, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience Preferred qualifications - 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience - 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) - MBA, or CPA Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Basic qualifications\n- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience\n- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience\n- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience\n- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Economics, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience\nPreferred qualifications\n- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience\n- 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)\n- MBA, or CPA

The successful candidate will demonstrate analytical thinking and will need to effectively manage finances of a high-growth business including:\n- Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling. \n- Presenting recommendations to business leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives\n- Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls.\n- Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with business and finance leaders to ensure effective performance reviews.\n- Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals and contribute to Free cash flows\n- Manage financial planning, analysis, and forecasting using the key input levers to the business.\n- 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\n- Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly and annual financial-book close process for the category.\n- Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.\n- Develop tools that deliver insightful analysis and reporting to support decision-making and monitor performance.\n- Will be skilled in extracting insights from large volumes of data, and effectively communicate with business partners in how to act on theses insights.\n- Interact with Finance teams across other Emerging Stores and other finance functions (example Accounting, and FP&A).