About this role
Description
We are seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join the Shopping Finance Team supporting and partnering with the Alexa for Shopping business team. We at Shopping finance are at the intersection of Amazon Retail and Shopping Technology. We are insightful, influential, inquisitive, and analytical. We collaborate across organizations, celebrate and leverage diverse perspectives, and support our peers to excel both at work and away from work.
As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will work closely with finance and business leaders to develop financial models, provide analytical insights to assist in evaluating new business concepts, turn insights into operational measurements, and identify paths to improve the planning and reporting process.
This role will manage Operating Expenses split between traditional headcount and token costs related to serving conversational AI products to customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Analyze and manage quantitative data to create meaningful analyses and build financial models that drive business decisions.
- Create, improve, and maintain reports for key financial and operational metrics.
- Analyze monthly financial and business metrics, report on key trends vs. plan, peel back the layers to understand underlying drivers of financial performance.
- Perform month-end close related activities.
- Execute monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc operating expense reports for the business
- Partner with business teams to enable success in the annual Goals process.
- Drive continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of best practices, and collaborate with other teams.
A day in the life
You are the single threaded owner for all Alexa for Shopping Operating Expense, this means you are monitoring hiring and org structure. You are also quantifying impact of AI token costs and partnering with tech teams to drive cost out and system efficiencies.
About the team
The team is constantly solving hard problems and supports each other in the process. We are navigating a new world with AI, the team is constantly innovating and rethinking how we approach finance. This is a team where you can build out your finance toolkit, learn new things, and have a lot of fun in the process.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field
- 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually