Senior Financial Analyst, Worldwide Returns & Recommerce

We invent bold solutions in sustainable transportation and returns experiences which create trust and value for customers, selling partners, and shippers that benefit people, planet, and profit. We champion and lead the way to achieve Zero Defects, Zero Cost of Returns, Zero Product Waste and Zero Carbon, at scale.

About the role

Worldwide Returns & Recommerce enhances the relationship with Amazon’s customers through Support Options and a Returns process that is simple, transparent, and convenient. We work to reduce returns by helping customers keep what they bought and removing defects that would cause a return (Zero Defects). When items are returned or damaged, we maximize reuse and recovery to achieve Zero Cost of Returns and Zero Product Waste, benefiting people, planet, and profit.

The WWR&R Finance team seeks a self-driven Senior Financial Analyst excited about solving complex problems that have a customer-facing impact, require strategic long-term thinking, and help drive the 4 zeroes. As the Senior Financial Analyst, you will partner directly with business, finance, and tech teams to exercise controllership over key business parameters. This is a high-visibility role where you will partner with senior leaders (including a Vice President/L10 and several Directors/L8s) regularly and build reporting that helps them keep a pulse on key business parameters and make strategic decisions.

You will own headcount and OpEx planning and reporting, as well as partnering with senior executives to help them identify strategic options to deliver to their goals. You will have a strong operational and controllership mindset as we continue our mission to build best-in-class reverse logistics processes.

Responsibilities

• Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.
• Use financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets. Output plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
• Create effective business partnerships, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events.
• Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
• Collect and analyze quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
• Participate in hiring, developing, and mentoring peers and team members. Seek and leverage diverse perspectives in all activities.
• Identify opportunities to resolve defects proactively.
• Improve, scale, or simplify finance tools across teams and organizations.
• Contribute to work-life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science).
• 3+ years of tax, finance, or a related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience.
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy 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).

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans).
• EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, WA, Bellevue - $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.