At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
We are seeking an experienced strategic and analytical Finance Business Partner/Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on the Amazon Payment Products Finance team, who is not afraid of ambiguity and likes to build mental models, mechanisms, and frameworks.
The Senior Financial Analyst will be part of the team to lead strategic and financial planning processes for Amazon Monthly Payments (AMP) in 10 geographies, responsible for controllership of monthly P&L and balance sheet reporting, developing and reporting on financial and operational business performance metrics, providing analytical support for Senior Business Management to influence strategic decision making, work cross-functionally with product, marketing and data science teams to manage the AMP program, assess trends, and proactively identify areas of opportunity and risk. This position will be a key risk/controllership gateway for the payments business and requires a candidate with strong communication and leadership skills. The candidate will also be involved in strategic projects and ad hoc analysis to support the growing business needs.
The right individual is passionate about using data to solve business problems. They foster the willingness to streamline and automate, decreasing redundancy in reporting and insights, while developing new tools to better support their business partners. This is a unique opportunity to participate in building the strategy of installments globally.
The finance team works closely with the business teams, so any candidate should be able to work well with cross functional teams. This role requires an individual with exceptional analytical abilities, outstanding business acumen, strong partnership skills and a strategic thinker. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
This position is office-based, with the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week in line with Amazon’s current flexible work guidance. Amazon encourages open communication about unique needs for flexible arrangements.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Significant 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)
- Experience building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- Experience identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- CFA or professionally accredited chartered accountant
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions.
- Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
- An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth.
- Solid business judgment and controllership focus.
- Strong PC modeling skills, including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access, and SQL.
