Senior Financial Analyst , IN Category Finance @ Amazon HR Muskan

Amazon seeks a Senior Finance Analyst in its marketing finance team. The candidate would be a co-pilot in driving finance partnership for various marketing channels of Amazon, own P&L cost, drive a high bar on controllership. The profile includes, amongst other areas, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and helping business in decision support through data analysis & sharp insights. Key job responsibilities
The Sr Finance Analyst position is based in Bangalore. The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical and have the demonstrated ability to effectively manage finances of a high-growth business including:
- Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling. 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 like vendor terms improvement (margins/ credit), operational costs 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.
- To establish governance framework to validate seller payouts on periodic basis and surface leakages if any. - 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Chartered Accountant or MBA (Finance) - 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
- 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)
- Experience in finance or a related analytical field