Amazon.com Services Inc. Looking for Senior Finance Analyst, Midwest Region Finance, Sort Centers at Nashville, TN  Full Time

The North American Sort Center team based in Seattle is responsible for the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), investment strategy and new transportation initiatives for this operation. This is an exciting opportunity to partner cross-functionally to ensure informed decision making, innovation and sustainability in processes for a growing network. Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.

This role partners closely with a broad range of leaders across business, operations and finance. A successful candidate effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful decision-making, and manages competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. The candidate should demonstrate amazing analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguity and strong analytical and verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with worldwide operations leadership is common.

This is an exciting opportunity to partner cross-functionally to ensure informed decision making, innovation and sustainability in processes for a growing network. Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.

This role partners closely with a broad range of leaders across Operations, HR, Capacity Planning, and FP&A. The role focuses on continuous improvement across internal and external stakeholders to define, design and maintain performance measurements, reporting and reviews. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to lead root-cause analysis and uncover core issues to drive cost reductions with stakeholders, manage, evaluate and create meaningful business reporting, and build and maintain complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance.

A successful candidate effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful decision-making, and manages competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. The candidate should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with leadership is common.

This role will be supporting a nationwide business unit and could support from a few different locations. In addition to Nashville, TN, this role can be based out of Washington, DC.

Key job responsibilities

• Provide business case for new investments, including financial analysis, funding strategy and communication to senior leaders
• Support forward looking financial planning and budgeting cycles
• Develop tools and processes that enhance the controllership of our investment deployment, forecasting and accounting
• Develop tools and processes that enhance the quality and scalability of our investment decisions
• Provide financial support to business partners when it comes to investment strategies

A day in the life
This is an operations finance role. In this position, you will be working directly with site level General Managers, Operations Directors, and support teams like Safety and HR, to drive cost and productivity performance metrics. You will need to be comfortable making quick, two-way door decisions that can have long-lasting impact on the business. A successful candidate will have a demonstrated history of strategic decision making and making data-driven recommendations.

• BA/BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
• 3+ years of finance experience or a related analytical field

• 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

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