Finance Analyst

Amazon seeks a Financial Analyst to be a key member of its marketplace finance team. The person would play a key role in driving the business agenda and would work as copilot in delivering the business results and will own the P&L for one of our business verticals. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and to help business in decision support through data analysis & business insight.

The Financial 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.

Basic Qualifications

• CA/ MBA from a reputed B-school with at least 4 years of post-qualification experience, across corporate finance and business finance.
• Results-oriented, highly energetic, dynamic individual with hands-on mentality.

• Advanced analytical skills and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture.

• Ability to work independently with staff at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience of successfully driving complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity and rapidly changing operating conditions while still delivering to expectations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills emphasizing written and oral communication.

• Demonstrated ability to build and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving.

• Industry experience in e-commerce, distribution, retail a plus.

• Advanced Excel and analysis skills.

• Experience with SQL is a strong plus.

Company – ASSPL – Karnataka
Job ID: A1641931