Financial Analyst, GFS FP&A

About the Organization: Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

About the role: Amazon's Global Finance Solutions (GFS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. GFS is seeking a Financial Analyst for Amazon Payments Finance team. The candidate would be responsible for financial close and performing related reporting, accruals etc. Additionally, the role would support monthly P&L analysis, perform financial reporting and forecasts, use financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets, and perform headcount reporting, planning and forecasting. Additional responsibilities would include establishing, measuring and monitoring weekly KPI metric discussions for new and/or existing business initiatives and operational performance and assisting in measuring and reporting progress on key goals for the business team in a timely and accurate manner. The candidate would also perform ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling, provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner, facilitate business reviews with data analysis, identify and implement solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes, and identify incomplete or inaccurate data, root cause of data issues, escalate discrepancies, fix data where possible or partner to deliver a solution.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- CA fresher / 1+ years of experience in FP&A, closing of Books of accounts and reporting & analytics

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in managing, evaluating, analyzing data quickly and creating meaningful business reporting.
- Good financial acumen with problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Good interpersonal skills — including written and oral communication skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Retail industry experience.
- Experience in VBA, COGNOS and SQL is a plus.

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