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Description

On the Business Partnership (BP) Team within Finance Operations (FinOps), you will find yourself driving operational excellence of timely and accurate payments via scalability and process excellence. To support the growth of Digital businesses at Amazon, this candidate must possess a strong passion for accountability, setting high standards, raising the bar, and driving results through constant focus on improving existing and future state operations, systems, and processes.

The ideal candidate will be able to think big to create a long-term plan, but have exceptional tactical skills to drive day-to-day implementation. They will be able to learn quickly and be willing to experiment with new ideas.

This role on the Digital Content BP team will be a key driver of critical improvement initiatives, adopting a programmatic approach to the continued development of the FinOps support model. This includes driving operational excellence across these businesses, tech teams, and other stakeholders in order to implement scalable solutions. The role will use complex problem solving skills, manage multiple high visibility priorities, and maintain a keen attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.

Key job responsibilities

- Build financial and operational analyses to drive global growth and scale, using data to influence senior leadership decisions, defining project plans and delivering high-quality, systematic solutions to prevent and eliminate defects.

- Scale services and tools – design processes and procedures that scale with the business growth in volume, complexity, and global geographic dispersion.

- Define key performance indicators – develop metrics and service level agreements for core programs and processes, and track delivery against program objectives.

- Communicate new/updated programs, policies, and processes to leaders, employees, and cross functional organizations.

- Collaborate and build relationships with system and business owners globally to ensure process excellence and the highest degree of controllership.

- Drive resolution of critical issues for vendors as well as support processes/systems deep dives to ensure root cause analysis and correction resulting in improved customer experience.

- Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects.

- Liaise with Financial Operations (FinOps) support centers to set near, medium, and long-term operational goals for improvements.

- Develop mechanisms to seamlessly support new program and tool launches worldwide.

- Identifying and quantifying financial and operational risks and opportunities both internal to Finance Operations and to the business, driving ad-hoc projects as required.

- Work cross-organizationally and functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and developing and implementing plans to capitalize on those opportunities and measure and monitor success and impacts.

A day in the life

The Analyst will be in charge of operational excellence across Digital Accounts Payable building analytics for metrics, root causing defects, and partnering with business teams to improve processes. The role will business partner across global Finance Operations to become an expert in core business processesand leverage data to build compelling business cases that influence our operations.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA, or CPA

- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

- 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)

- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/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.