Senior Finance Analyst

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree, or MBA
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results, or 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 applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses, or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• Experience using complex modeling and analysis to inform key business decisions
• Experience in commercial finance business partnering or FP&A (at multinational organisation.)
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• 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)

What the job involves

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Finance FP&A Analyst to be a key member supporting EMEA Commercial Sales
• This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon in a newly created role
• As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will partner closely with business leaders and their teams, providing strategic support by developing financial models and generating analytical insights to evaluate business opportunities and concepts
• You will turn insights into operational measurements and drive innovation to improve our planning and forecasting tools and processes
• This role requires a financial modeling background, advanced Excel abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations and project management skills
• This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal skills
• At Amazon, we believe that in-person collaboration is essential to our culture and innovation
• While we allow flexibility for personal circumstances, we generally expect employees to work from our offices five days a week
• This approach has consistently shown that spontaneous interactions, rapid problem-solving, and the energy of in-person teamwork lead to better results for our customers
• In particular, our data shows that teams working together in person are more effective at making complex decisions, onboarding new team members, and fostering the kind of creative collaboration that has driven Amazon's success
• The serendipitous hallway conversations and impromptu whiteboarding sessions that happen naturally in an office environment have proven invaluable to our invention process and maintaining our high bar for excellence
• Build financial models for new business concepts
• Drive short- and long-term financial planning
• Partner with business team to implement new processes (controllership) and drive the improvement of existing processes
• Present financial summary and business insights to senior management, to help business partners understand areas of growth as well as opportunity for engagement
• Tighten internal controls for program spending investments