DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer centric company on earth. To get there, we need talented, bright, creative and driven people. If you’d like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. Finance is all about the numbers, unless you work at Amazon; it is about knowing the numbers and so much more. As finance leaders, we’re not just a reporting function, but a core part of the business, developing partnerships and creating value through insightful analyses. If you want to be a part of a fast moving, dynamic initiative then this is the role for you!

Key job responsibilities
Amazon seeks a Financial Analyst I to support our Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team. The GREF team develops and manages a large portfolio of owned office properties and leases across the globe with offices in varying stages of the building life cycle, from ground up construction, to initial fit out, operations, and decommissioning. This role will be primarily responsible for financial analysis and global support in managing GREF Vendors with activities including vendor set up, PO launch, Invoice and payment support, supporting in the preparation of annual budgeting and forecasting processes, and controllership on monthly Opex accruals. This individual will work with global business partners, local facilities teams, accounting teams, and other internal and external stakeholders and contributes to achievement of key goals.
This position requires a proactive, highly motivated individual with an aptitude for process improvement, who can assist in the strategic allocation of programs and resources. This person will also be expected to take a leadership role in improving the period end close review process as well as drive positive change by evaluating and streamlining existing regional and global operational processes, controls and metrics.

A day in the life
•Work closely with Regional Finance team to provide consistent messaging regarding billing and ensure accuracy in financial reporting.
•Address account inquiries/concerns, ensures vendor tool usage, and drives defect resolution as part of important vendor management activities.
•Understand internal systems, policies & procedures to support vendor payments, navigating the complexity.
•Coordinate with internal stakeholders to develop vendor solutions, crucial for resolving issues collaboratively.
•Lead process improvement efforts, and work directly with international team members to simplify and centralize the billing process for the organization.
•Conduct thorough root cause analysis on customer impacting issues, a valuable skill.
Support organizational/operational projects and meets KPIs as common responsibilities.
•Partner with your team and develop all weekly and monthly financial close activities, all planning, forecasting, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation.
•Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with your business partners –influence the decisions. Underlying root cause issues quickly and uncover core issues using data, then assist, consult with, and teach the business how decisions affect costs in their sites.
•Identify, Develop key business opportunities and drive efficiency while balancing customer promise.
•Expertise in collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data, creating analyses.
•Manage new vendor setup, Annual PO Launch and fund management.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 3+ years of finance experience
– 3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
– 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
– Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
– Experience using data to influence business decisions
– Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
– 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
– CA or MBA from Tier1/Tier2 colleges
– Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: Essbase, Cognos)
– Financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP)
– Experience in managing, evaluating, analyzing data quickly and creating meaningful business reporting.
– Good financial acumen with problem-solving and decision-making skills.
– Good in managing competing priorities and meet deadlines.
– Interpersonal skills — including written and oral communication skills.
– Advanced proficiency in Excel.