Sr Financial Analyst, Amazon Business Finance
Job Description
Amazon Business (AB) is a B2B marketplace platform that serves companies, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. AB combines Amazon's consumer marketplace efficiency with features specifically designed for business customers, including bulk pricing, business-only pricing, and quantity discounts. Finance professionals in Amazon Business focus on corporate customer acquisition costs, contract pricing optimization, and B2B-specific metrics and customer purchasing patterns. A significant growth area is the expansion of AB's enterprise capabilities, competing with traditional B2B distributors while leveraging Amazon's logistics network and technology infrastructure.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a dynamic team and drive Amazon Business operating model. This person will directly partner with business leaders, ensure strong controllership over the business unit's topline, profit and free cash flow, lead financial and operational analyses, and develop and implement plans and mechanisms for business improvement. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to provide strong analytical support for decision-making, to think strategically, to advise in creating/improving mechanisms, and to lead business reviews. The position will report to AB Finance Head in Japan.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Directors and Senior Managers to drive strategic initiatives and long term success
- Develop financial and operational plans to achieve long-term business goals
- Conduct business reviews, evaluate progress toward business goals, and communicate progress to senior management
- Perform analyses and develop financial frameworks/models to identify opportunities for business improvement
- Review and report monthly and quarterly financial and operational performance to business leaders
- Maintain a strong financial control environment
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required in business, finance, or related field required
- 4+ years in finance, consulting, strategic planning or roles that owns P/L, with progressively increasing levels of responsibility
- Fluent written and verbal English
- Proven, established professional experience in analytical position such as finance, consulting, business analysis, revenue management, or web analytics
- Ability to use MS Excel to build and manage models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving
- Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate analysis and insights to senior stakeholders.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
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
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
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