Senior Financial Analyst, US Consumables, Ambient Food & Beverage

Key job responsibilities

• Build reports and financial models to address difficult business questions across Ambient Food and Beverage GL
• Own P&L analysis – analyze financial outputs, connect them with underlying input drivers, and translate them into insights for both categories with limited guidance
• Proactively dive deep to ensure reporting accuracy and regularly audit your work, insisting on the highest standards
• Identify incomplete or inaccurate data, determine root causes, escalate discrepancies, execute fixes, and partner on resolution
• Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc data analysis, and financial modeling using a broad range of tools including Excel and SQL
• Contribute to core financial processes for Ambient Food and Beverage including Annual Operating Plan, long range Strategic Plan and Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews
• Design scalable solutions that automate reporting of key performance metrics and analysis to achieve business goals

About the team

We are an entrepreneurial team within US Consumables Finance supporting the Ambient Food & Beverage, Household Goods, Baby, and Pets businesses. We work in a highly collaborative environment. You will engage with partners in different areas throughout Amazon. Along the way, we guarantee that you'll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of customers.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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 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
• 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)