Description

Do you want to be part of an organization that is designing and launching a large scale Grocery business? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for the benefit of a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on customers and working backwards? If so, the Amazon Grocery Logistics (AGL) Operations Finance team is looking for an experienced leader with a record of achieving results.

Who we are:

The AGL team owns the unique operational capabilities required to support Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market Online. Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our Grocery businesses. Our teams experiment, fail fast, learn, and scale rapidly, and we have a culture of data-driven decision-making.

The Role:

The AGL Finance team seeks a Senior Finance Analyst to partner with our Shipping Supplies and Supply Chain business partners on operational performance, financial analysis, long term strategy and execution. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps.

• Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.

• Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.

• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.

• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.

• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

• 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA

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

• 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)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $56,900/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.