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Description

We are seeking a Business Analyst to help lead the FP&A space for 3rd party sellers who both sell on Amazon and have their products fulfilled by Amazon. In this role you will partner closely with FBA senior leadership, fee strategy, and teams that support lowering costs and improving seller experience. You'll also work with other internal finance teams, controllership, and corporate finance to ensure planning and actual reporting cycles run smoothly, look for automation/standardization opportunities and the right slices of the P&L are built.

The successful candidate will have strong analytical background, track record of effective business partnership, and ability to deliver results in an ambiguous, fast-paced, and dynamic environment. The candidate must have the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders to understand topline and cost drivers, and deliver high quality insights to senior leaders to influence defect reduction strategy.

We are looking for someone with expertise in data analytics skills, strong business acumen, an ownership mindset and ability to clearly communicate. In this role, you will leverage our data to drive efficiencies, provide key data-driven insights, enable new opportunities and innovate on behalf of business customers, in close partnership with both finance and business teams. You will manage and execute entire components of large projects from start to finish including data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations. You will also support building metrics and reporting on them to senior leadership.

A successful candidate will develop a strong understanding of our business and make data-driven conclusions. They will be comfortable with ambiguity while working in a fast-paced dynamic environment. They will also continuously learn new systems, tools, and industry best practices to help design new tools that help our team automate, and accelerate analytics.

Key job responsibilities

• Oversee business and finance reporting and analytics

• Understand input drivers and validate integrity of the reporting to influence strategic decision-making and planning

• Build and drive planning, forecasting, and reporting models

• Identify and support the automation of manual reports

• Generate actionable insights through the development of metrics, dashboards and deep dive analyses

• Communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner

• Influence critical business decisions with data

A day in the life

As the Business Analyst, you will work closely with multiple business and finance teams including fee strategy, fee science, product, economics, and operations, to shape the monetization of our 3P business. You will help the team identify growth and profit opportunities, partnering with the business teams to develop fee strategy for a global multi-Billion dollar revenue line.

About the team

You will be joining a high-performing, fast-paced FP&A team whose mission is to be the trusted strategic advisor to the business and scale through innovation. Is a highly visible role within the finance team and requires a strong leader and open communicator. You will have direct impact on top and bottom lines with the ability to deliver improvements for our teams. You will be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work and you will see direct business improvements based on the results of your work.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of business or financial analysis experience

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

- Experience with SQL

- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders

- Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions etc) and data visualization tools such as Tableau

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA or Masters in Business, Economics, Mathematics or Statistics

- Expert-level knowledge of SQL

- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

- Advanced financial modeling & analytical skills

- Superior attention to detail

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.