Amazon

Senior Finance Analyst, Operations Finance

Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. This is what unites Amazonians across teams and geographies as we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.

  • Finance and accounting

  • Full-time

  • Office | Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.

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Why Amazon

The scope and scale of our mission drives us to seek diverse perspectives, be resourceful, and navigate through ambiguity. Inventing and delivering things that were never thought possible isn't easy, but we embrace this challenge every day.

About the role

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented financial analyst with strong SQL, automation, and PowerBI/Quicksight experience to join our fast paced team. In this role you will be responsible for analyzing financial/non-financial data, creating reports, and providing insights to support our business decision-making process. You will work closely with various teams across the organization to gather and analyze data, identify trends and develop financial models, reports and BI tools.

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Operations is at the heart of what we do, delivering hundreds of thousands of items each day and fulfilling customer orders from all over the world. The Operations Finance team is seeking a Finance Analyst to support financial analysis, planning and control in our fast growing Australian Fulfillment Network.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner with Operations to drive continuous improvement in financial and operational performance. Lead the operational planning and reporting process - Support expansion projects and new business initiatives, third-party agreements, network location analyses. Ensure timely and accurate metrics and forecasts are created and maintained. - Partner with Retail, IT, Transportation, Supply Chain teams to drive optimal cross functional decision that maximize Amazon's long term free cash flow. - Drive standardization of operations reporting and BI tools within the Fulfillment Center network, adopt and share best practices across Emerging countries and worldwide. - Contribute to the next generation development of site finance planning and analysis; influence across sites and across operating countries to effect change.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience - 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience - 3+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience - 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience - 3+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience - Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence - Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos or Essbase), SQL and Data warehouse - Experience in developing and maintaining data and visuals within Tableau/PowerBi/Quicksight

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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)

What you'll be responsible for

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    Development of Finance Strategy

    Recommend improvements to optimize and improve financial performance and development of strategic long-term plans

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    Operational and Financial Reporting

    Analyze financial data to prepare timely reports to support business decisions

  • Financial Modeling

    Analyze data to create financial models that support planning and projections

Skills you'll need

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    Collaboration

    Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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    Numerical problem solving

    Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

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    Critical thinking

    Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

Meet the team

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Finance and accounting

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