Sr. Financial Analyst, Central Ops PE Finance - ARS

Our Fulfillment Centers (FCs) utilize cutting edge technologies and computer systems in order to serve millions of customers each day.

We have doubled the size of our fulfillment network over the last two years - come be a part of this tremendous growth and join a dedicated team committed to ongoing operational and financial improvements!

The North America Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Central Operations team is looking for a Sr. Financial Analyst to support productivity planning.

This role will support our ARS Process Engineering team. ARS is the largest network within Amazon's Fulfillment Network and given its impact on cost, Finance partners play an important role in improving productivity in these FCs.

Our team serves as proactive stewards, utilizing data to alert our business partners to the risks and opportunities of the business.

We combine the known and unknowns to present the financial picture to lead the business forward.

Key job responsibilities

Central Operations Process Engineering (PE) Finance is responsible for the following :

• Independently deliver projects with limited oversight provided by manager to scale, improve controllership, or create value-add improvements
• Build financial and operational reports that influence decision-making.
• Dive deep to ensure reporting accuracy and regularly audit work
• Work with a variety of data sources and identify incomplete or inaccurate data, identify root causes, escalate discrepancies, execute fixes, and partner on the resolution, insisting on the highest standards
• Identify basic control risks, evaluate impact, propose changes, and implement improvements to remediate gaps
• Apply controllership principles and frugality to new initiatives
• Provide clear and concise summaries and effectively answer questions in detail to drive results
• Articulate finance issues to non-Finance partners and earn trust
• Develop working relationships with business partners, managers, and peers
• Seek learning opportunities to develop deeper or multiple areas of finance expertise and share knowledge in and outside of your team
• Contribute to Finance community events or programs (e.g., professional development, work / life harmony)

About the team

This role is a part of a five person team that supports the AR network. This role will partner closely with a broad range of leaders in Finance, Process Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Accounting, HR and Technology.

This role is critical as a financial advocate and business partner to deliver year over year productivity improvements.

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

Arlington, VA, USA Bellevue, WA, USA Dallas, TX, USA Nashville, TN, USA New York, NY, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 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)
10 days ago