Business Analyst – Job ID: 2184383 | ADSIPL – Karnataka – IN, KA, Bengaluru

Amazon

  • Full Time

DESCRIPTION

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver cutting-edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!

Do you love problem solving? Are you looking for real world Supply Chain challenges? Do you have a desire to make a major contribution to the future, in the rapid growth environment of Cloud Computing?

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated, analytical and detail oriented candidate to help build scalable, predictive and prescriptive business analytics solutions that supports AWS Supply Chain and Procurement organization. You will be part of the Supply Chain Analytics team working with Global Stakeholders, Data Engineers and Business Analysts to achieve our goals.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with high attention to detail, and a proven ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. Candidates must have excellent analytical capabilities, be comfortable diving deep into data, have strong writing skills, lead executive-level reviews, and communicate clearly and effectively to all levels of the company, both in writing and in meetings.

The ideal candidate will not only raise the bar on retrieving and analyzing data but is a person who wants to be an active participant with a strong curiosity to understand the business end-to-end, proactively dive into issues as they arise, and has a track record of using data to influence decision makers.

In this role, you will:

Understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and processes.
Manipulate/mine data from database tables using SQL, and from log files by writing scripts (e.g. R, Python).
Interface with Global Stakeholders, Data Engineers, and Business Analysts across time zones to gather requirements by asking right questions, analyzing data, and drawing conclusion by making and validating appropriate assumptions.
Conduct deep dive analyses of business problems and formulate conclusions and recommendations; determine optimized courses of action to deliver comprehensive BI solutions.
Produce written recommendations and insights for key stakeholders to help shape solution design.
Design, develop and maintain scalable and reliable analytical tools, dashboards, and metrics that drive key supply chain, and procurement decisions.
Simplify and automate reporting, metrics and dashboards; build solutions to have maximum scale and self-serviceability by users.
Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
Handle multiple projects at once, deal with ambiguity and rapidly-changing priorities.

Our environment is fast-paced and requires someone who is a hard-working, meticulous and energetic, who gets things done at an effective pace, gets results and is comfortable working with tight deadlines and changing priorities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, finance or engineering from a premier institute.
5+ years’ experience in Analytics/BI, writing and optimizing SQL with large-scale, complex datasets.
3+ years’ experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau, Business Objects, MicroStrategy etc.
Strong financial acumen and analytics skills with a high degree of proficiency in data mining.
Experience in gathering requirements and formulating business metrics for complex reporting.
Ability to think big, understand business strategy, provide consultative business analysis, and leverage technical skills to create insightful BI solutions.
Ability to prioritize projects, manage multiple competing priorities and drive projects to completion under tight deadlines.
Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong leadership skills and ability to assume leadership role with cross-functional peers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree in Statistics, Operations or Supply Chain from a premium institute, or MBA from premier business schools.
2+ years’ experience in Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain (Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Optimization, and Logistics), or Supply Chain Analytics.
Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3 and Athena.
Experience in statistical computing using R.
Knowledge of scripting for automation (e.g. Python)

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.

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