Description

Amazon AGI seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to own several business partnership processes for the Information team. The ideal candidate enjoys diving deep into complex problems, works effectively with cross-functional teams and thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. The role also has regular interaction with various business units and requires strong communication skills.

This person operates with significant autonomy and independence, showing high judgment in decisions that have financial, business, operational, or customer implications. We're seeking an innovative, creative, analytical and strategic thinker.

Key job responsibilities

-Finance controllership of month end close by partnering with accounting at month end and converting key financial information into a business review process for all stakeholders to understand.

-Own regular and ad-hoc analyses, reviewing business cases and performance versus goals.

-Report monthly spend, and forecast future commitments against Content Licensing

-Develop and report on weekly/monthly financial and operational performance metrics.

-Use multiple data sources to build aforementioned reports (e.g. Tableau, PAX, QuickSight, SQL).

-Provide clear analyses on trends and causes of variances. Translate those findings into recommendations that align with Information's monthly, quarterly, and annual goals.

-Drive quarter, annual, and ad-hoc planning cycles using corporate goals, historical actual data, and future commitment data.

-Build processes to report new business metrics as they arise.

-Continuously improve monthly reporting process to make it faster, more accurate, and provide new information.

A day in the life

This role will support the AGI Information organization will drive financial reporting and strategic decision making, including engagement, content acquisition, AWS, and ROI analyses. Given the strategic nature of the AGI business, this is a high visibility role across Alexa and AGI leadership. You will work hand-in-hand with your finance and business partners in Alexa to improve reporting, perform impact analyses, and provide strategic insights and recommendations.

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

Seattle, WA, USA

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 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 BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field, or Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

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)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $56,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.