Financial Analyst, FOAA

Heredia, H -

Costa Rica

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Job Description

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Global Financial Services (GFS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. GFS is seeking a Financial Analyst to support our team.

Key job responsibilities

Support monthly and quarterly forecast for both OPEX and headcount (HC). Understand variance drivers and provide insightful commentaries

Controllership will be top priority. You will work with a variety of data sources and will identify basic control risks, evaluate impact, propose changes, and implement improvements to remediate gaps

Developing and reporting on financial and operational performance metrics

Support in monthly/quarterly financial closing activities, in close co-ordination with business and accounting teams

Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner. Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time

Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives

Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls

Responsible to frame and deliver team objectives.

Drive process improvements required to enhance controls.

Basic Qualifications

- 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience, working on budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting
- Experience working with financial data sets to influence business decisions
- Process improvements, automation and analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent
- Advanced written and oral English communication skills
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
- Experience working with large-scale data processing and reporting tools (i.e., SQL, Power Query, Power Pivot)

Preferred Qualifications

- Proven ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions

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