Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon

UK CF Productivity and Continuous Improvement Pillar

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
Excel
Power BI
VBA
Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
Excel
Power BI
VBA
Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • BA or BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or any similar discipline with a clear analytical bias,
  • Demonstrable financial acumen, including deep familiarity with concepts of forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis, as well as in root cause data interpretation,
  • Experienced with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MS Access, PowerBI, Python); you’re comfortable to provide recommendations for strategic decision-making,
  • Advanced-level proficiency in Excel; you’re comfortable with power query, pivots, lookups, VBA and more,
  • You’ve gained significant, relevant experience in similar senior analyst position

Desirable

  • Demonstrable problem-solving ability, alongside previous analyst experience, particularly in root cause analysis,
  • Highly analytical and detail-oriented,
  • You combine your professional competency with an ability to develop new ideas, and creative solutions: you implement these to great effect,
  • Organised multitasker: you prioritise your workload, enabling you to meet tight deadlines, while achieving results, especially in a fast-paced, high-growth environment,
  • You’re a proven communicator, with excellent presentation skills when working with multiple peer groups and varying levels of seniority,
  • Previous analyst experience in the financial side of manufacturing, logistics or distribution centre processes is a nice to have

What the job involves

  • You’ll will be supporting our Fulfillment Center network across the EU as part of the Finance Productivity and Continuous Improvement team
  • You’ll use your expertise in the collection, analysis and management of quantitative financial data, as you create meaningful reports, and driving business improvements, while recommending cost reductions,
  • Via root cause analysis, you’ll leverage extensive data to uncover any underlying process- or finance related issues,
  • Working with EU wide stakeholders to drive business improvements, streamlining the productivity improvement process,
  • You’ll drive UK productivity with necessary improvements or process changes, as well as aiding the creation of new measures to bolster productivity,
  • You’ll recommend, develop and implement policies and programmes that guide our Operations in maintaining (and improving) its competitive position and profitability, developing weekly and monthly financial metrics, alongside all financial planning, forecasting and reporting models,
  • You’ll take care of continuous innovation regarding Productivity and Continuous Improvement, as you aim to improve your deliverables, while making them more readily accessible for everyone,
  • You’ll work with data source providers and technology teams, ensuring that key financial decision data is accurate, automated and delivered in a timely fashion,
  • As a senior analyst, you are a quick thinker: able to manage competing priorities while providing level-headed guidance, even during unexpected events
  • We continuously push improvement in Variable Cost Per Unit (VCPU) through productivity improvements
  • We leverage technical resources to identify previously unseen or unexplored opportunities for efficiency and cost reduction, and audit to ensure the gains are realised
  • We target Best in Class performance for all sites and develop mechanisms to reach it
  • We reduce the manual burden on other teams through leveraging automation to streamline processes
  • We strive to become experts in our field, and share learned best practices with others

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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