Description

Are you passionate about driving change and delivering results?

Our Customer Fulfillment network is renowned for being world-class, delivering packages to customers across the world. Our Finance teams don’t just manage our books; they help drive the company forward by partnering closely with cross-functional teams to support the growth of this rapidly expanding network; driving controllership, innovation, productivity, and cost-effective operations across the network in a fast paced environment.

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA) team to drive business insights and develop metrics that support business growth. Supporting customer and business insights, you will be responsible for data modeling, QuickSight migration, ad-hoc reporting, and long term analytical and statistical projects. You will support cross-functional stakeholders and work with multiple sources and a wide range of data technologies / sources (e.g. PowerBI, Quicksight, SQL etc.).

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with development of metrics and business analytics, and have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies, and a strong understanding of Data Warehouse (DW) concepts, while dealing with ambiguity. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should be able to work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and implement reporting solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Create mechanisms for non-technical stakeholders to self-serve data

• Look for opportunities to simplify and automate redundant processes

• Facilitate the intake of requests from the field to help improve reporting options operational support

• Rationalize existing reporting that has been built and creating additional reports that should be maintained centrally

• Accurately capture and translate the requirements of the stakeholders (Operations, Field Finance, etc.) into technical requests to the partner tech teams

• Have ability to independently influence and drive outputs, meet deadlines, and set clear expectations and roadmaps.

• Understand how data flows through our financial platforms and know the right data to use for analysis, and establish a source of truth to support field operations

• Be self-driven, and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or dirty data

• An ability and interest in working in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment

• Take part in hiring, developing, and mentoring activities while you seek value, and leverage diverse perspectives

• Contribute to work life harmony by becoming a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence

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

Toronto, ON, CAN

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or Bachelor's degree

3+ 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

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)

Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis

Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

Strong ability to create reporting solutions in QuickSight

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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.