Finance Analyst, Canada Retail, Canada Stores Finance
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to influence the strategic direction of one of Amazon's fastest growing and most successful businesses, with a focus on capturing growth opportunities and driving profitability improvement. As a key member of the Canada finance team, you will develop strong business partnerships by frequently engaging with leadership teams, vendor managers, marketing, and operations partners to share financial insights, set strategy, and influence business decisions. This role also has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
- Owns Profit and Loss Statement across both 1P & 3P Business for their GL(s) (i.e. acts as the CFO of their business)
- Managing weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reporting including operational metrics
- Communicating financial and business results to senior leaders; going beyond the "what happened", and focusing on the "what can we do about it"
- Seeing around corners for the next big opportunity and helping to scale those insights to your GL Counterparts across CA and NAS
- Gathering analytical insights and developing financial frameworks that inform and measure investment decisions and help set the long-term strategy
- Performing deep dive analyses to develop recommendations that impact the decision making of senior leadership; this is across profitability, topline, and cost out initiatives
- Ensure a high level of financial controllership, maintaining data integrity
- Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to take deep dive findings and right size insights for their business partners, ultimately driving financially accretive actions
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 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
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
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
- 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)
Pay
The base salary range for this position is $82,700.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually. 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave