Financial Analyst II, NACF

About the role

Are you ready to influence how one of the world's most complex retail networks allocates resources and drives operational excellence? Amazon's North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is seeking a Financial Analyst II to be a trusted finance partner supporting operational and functional leaders.

Responsibilities

• Manage development of weekly and monthly financial reviews, forecasting, and reporting models, delivering clear narratives that compare actuals against plans, identify variances, and provide actionable recommendations to operations and functional partners
• Identify and solve complex data integrity issues by diving deep into how data flows through financial platforms, establishing the right source of truth, and collaborating with stakeholders to implement fixes that insist on the highest standards
• Identify and implement opportunities to resolve finance issues and improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes across teams and organizations, centralizing process improvements that enable business partners to take action quickly
• Proactively audit reporting accuracy across your work and other teams, identify incomplete or inaccurate data, determine root causes, and execute resolutions that measurably improve controllership
• Use financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses that address difficult business questions, challenge business partner plans and assumptions when needed, and communicate findings in a clear and concise manner to drive results

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 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
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• 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)