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Amazon Senior Financial Analyst - Prime in Seattle, Washington
Description
At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. The Prime membership program is at the heart of what we do, continually delighting customers with benefit offerings and expansion into new countries. Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to partner with the WW Prime business team dedicated to long-term strategic projects.
About the role:
Prime’s vision is to be the world’s most engaging, satisfying, and loved membership program. As the team continues to innovate the products it launches and evaluates the future trajectory of Prime, the Senior Financial Analyst will partner with stakeholders to develop insights and create tools helping assess investment decisions. In this role, you will have substantial visibility with senior leadership as you provide strategic direction while ensuring a strong sense of financial controllership. Many of the projects will be focusing on answering the most elusive questions surrounding customer behavior, value perception of benefits offered, and how Prime can help better serve rapidly changing customer needs.
Role Expectations:
The Senior Financial Analyst must have solid financial knowledge and business acumen while thinking strategically and dealing with ambiguity, building financial analysis to make recommendations and communicating findings in a clear and concise manner. This role requires cross-functional partnership with product managers, data scientists, economists, and business intelligence engineers.
Key job responsibilities
With enthusiasm to help deliver new ideas and a tenacity to problem-solve, you will thrive if you seek to influence business owners and have a strong foundation in modeling skills and attention to detail. Some of the project you will tackle include:
Creating investment frameworks to analyze new products or benefit offerings
Invent new methods in assessing incremental value in strategic customer segments
Create scalable tools that help measure business success metrics
Establish guardrails in Prime’s willingness to invest in acquiring or retaining customers
Be active in the finance community mentoring others and sharing knowledge
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical customers
Advanced proficiency in Excel (VBA, array functions, etc.)
Proficiency with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase and/or Cognos), providing solutions based on results of ad hoc analyses to senior management for strategic decision-making
Experience in Power BI, QuickSight, or other similar visualization tools
Advanced experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis
Highly analytical, detail oriented and keen business acumen; proven ability to manage new ideas and creative solutions and demonstrated experience managing such mechanisms to an end result
Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing and often ambiguous environment
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 $60,200/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.