DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s India Stores Finance team has an opening for a Senior Finance Analyst in the Category Finance team.

At Amazon, we’re working to be the world’s most customer-centric company. Driving innovation on behalf of customers is core to our mission, and this position leads a finance organization responsible for partnering with the business to deliver on this mission. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most strategic, impactful, and fastest growing areas within Amazon.

The Senior Finance Analyst partners with business leadership to provide strategic guidance and analytic/ decision making support for evaluating and prioritizing new business ideas, providing the leadership, management and vision to ensure that the organization has the necessary and appropriate financial direction, operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and information technology / systems to effectively and rapidly grow the business, while securing its financial strength and operating efficiency.

The role has primary P&L responsibility (including leading the financial planning process) for the business and will need to partner with many internal teams (Operations, Transportation, Supply Chain, FP&A, Accounting) in delivering the business objectives.

This role requires a self-starter with good business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail and good track record of influencing business partners. This role has regular interaction with senior leadership and stakeholders across Amazon and requires good verbal and written communication skills. The candidate will need to be capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy, and hence needs to demonstrate a high degree of comfort with ambiguity besides holding a high bar on professional integrity; and will need to have a proven track record for hiring, developing and retaining the best talent.



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 engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
– Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

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)