Finance Analyst - BizOps, IN Stores Finance

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Amazon seeks a Financial Analyst to lead function specific finance activity. The person would play a key role in driving the function agenda and would work as copilot in delivering the business result. The key task would be to help the business in decision support through data analysis and business insight. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and to help business in decision support through data analysis & business insight.

The Finance Analyst position is based in Bangalore.

The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical and will need to demonstrate ability to effectively manage finances of a high-growth business including:

• Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modelling. Presenting recommendations to business leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives
• Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls.
• Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with business leaders to ensure effective finance and cost management.
• Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals and contribute to Free cash flows
• Manage financial planning and analysis, forecasting product lines using the key input levers to the business.
• Facilitate weekly/ monthly/ quarterly reviews with data analysis and follow through with category leader on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time
• Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly and annual financial-book close process for the category.
• Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.

### Basic qualifications

• 1+ years of finance experience
• 1+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting