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 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis 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 engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

• Six Sigma Black Belt

• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• MBA, or CPA

• 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)