DESCRIPTION Do you want to develop strategic initiatives enabling sustainable value creation? Do you like to work across functional groups to solve complex business problems? Then look no further!
We are Global Logistics at Amazon – the division responsible for worldwide Ocean, Rail, Customs and emerging markets goods selection into a rapidly growing list of countries. We create new logistical benchmarks and "firsts" through disruptive innovation and we are experiencing hyper-growth.
We are searching for an exceptionally talented, bright, and driven Sr. Financial Analyst to lead the financial development of organizational value creation strategies. Sustainable value creation is a key driver within our overall product strategy and portfolio success is dependent on the development and implementation of effective long-term growth drivers.
At Amazon – finance partners are more than just the team that reports numbers and provides controllership. Finance actively partners with the leadership team to promote the business, understand drivers, look around corners, and attain our growth and profitability goals. You work collaboratively across a matrixed organization with a strategic finance view to define, develop, and implement new business strategies. Our goal is to drive intelligent investment decisions and improved profitability for our business. The ability to manage the expectations of our leadership team, our stakeholders, customers, as well as members of the larger finance team is paramount. This is a hugely exciting role for a strategic finance professional to own a vital part of the success of our business.
The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of e-commerce and logistics topics and stakeholders, including Demand, Product, Operations, and Sales. As a Sr. Financial Analyst, you will collaborate with business leaders to identify, define, prioritize, implement, and measure initiatives designed to improve E2E value creation. You will collaborate with our Operations, Product, Data Science, Sales, and Business Intelligence teams and own key financial decisions related to E2E value creation.
The scope for this role focuses on building new process and mechanisms, establishing new business partner relationships, benchmarking market segment opportunities, building analytical and financial models to recommend opportunities and strategies that optimize for long term free cash flow, and build business cases for the implementation of individual strategic initiatives.
This role requires a high degree of curiosity and ownership, and the ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to work across teams and earn trust with key stakeholders to drive results.
Key job responsibilities
To have success, the candidate must be able work through ambiguous situations, diving deep and leveraging data where possible, to make informed recommendations. They must demonstrate a high degree of curiosity about opportunities within the business and then exhibit the ownership needed to drive outcomes. This person needs to be able to think big, identifying opportunities through benchmarking (internally and externally). Strong mix of technical and soft skills are a must, as candidates will need to build business cases with high degrees of financial acumen and then communicate effectively across senior finance and non-finance leaders.
About the team
The Global Logistics Finance Strategy team manages Sales and Marketing strategies, Demand Forecasting, Pricing and Promotional strategies, Value Creation strategies, and strategic initiatives.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
