Senior Finance Analyst, North American Customer Fulfillment

Amazon

Senior Finance Analyst, North American Customer Fulfillment

Nashville ,

Tennessee

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Our Fulfillment Centers (FCs) utilize Amazon robotics, scanning machines, and computer systems that track millions of items in a day and are how we serve millions of customers each day. We have nearly doubled the size of our fulfillment network over the last two years – come be part of this tremendous growth and join a dedicated team committed to ongoing operational and financial improvements!
The North America Customer Fulfillment Central Operations team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to support Productivity Planning. Our team serves as proactive stewards 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
Independently deliver projects with limited oversight provided by manager to scale, improve controllership, or create value-add improvements
Build financial and operational reports and may own financial 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
Curious and 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)
A day in the life
You may start your day off deep diving a particular spend area you are responsible for to understand the variance and which fulfillment centers are driving the variance and why. You’ll work with the fulfillment centers to understand what is happening locally and possible actions for reducing the spend – in doing so you arrange for time to visit a couple sites next week. Finally, you spend some time as a buddy for a new employee who is learning about Amazon – and share tips to help them be successful in their role.
About the team
This role will partner closely with a broad range of leaders in Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Accounting, HR and Technology. This role plays a critical role as a financial advocate and business partner.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Basic Qualifications
BA/BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
3+ years of finance experience or a related analytical field
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)
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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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