Financial Analyst, MEA 3P Finance

Description 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. Company - Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC Job ID: A10602127

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: 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results; Experience with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards); MBA or CPA.

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 time; Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly and annual financial-book close process for the category; Develop tools that deliver insightful analysis and reporting to support decision-making and monitor performance; Extract insights from large volumes of data and communicate with business partners on actions; Interact with Finance teams across other Emerging Stores and other finance functions.