It’s no secret that Amazon relies on technology to deliver compensation solutions to its customers. The On-Step Associate Compen$ation and Investment Strategy Team (OA$IS) builds complex compensation models that work across our business lines, globally. Our services support hundreds of thousands of associate pay records, and help our leaders make informed business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year in compensation. This remains a fast growing support function, and our technical journey has only begun. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal compensation recommendation engine, using our science and engineering muscle as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage cutting edge technologies in big data, machine learning, and optimization techniques.

To accomplish this, the On-Step Associate Compen$ation and Investment Strategy Team (OA$IS) seeks a talented Business Analyst who will own analytics and develop business requirements and solutions to drive compensation insights and investment optimization for our hourly associates on a step plan. As a member of this team, you will have an opportunity to be a thought leader in Step Plan Compensation by working with a group of talented Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Economists, product managers, consultants, and business leaders to design the Amazon compensation structure of the future.

This position requires superior analytical thinking, ability to quickly approach large ambiguous problems and apply analytics, technical, and engineering expertise to rapidly analyze, validate, visualize, prototype and deliver data driven recommendations. This position also requires significant cross functional activity and integration with Compensation, PXT, PXT Central Science, Operations, and Finance. Successful candidates must thrive in a fast paced environment.



Responsibilities:
- Perform complex analysis and data research to identify opportunities to reduce transportation costs through efficiency improvements, eliminate defect, improve customer experience, and support critical business decisions.
- Design, develop, and establish KPIs and run complex network simulations to provide strategic insights to drive growth and performance.
- Systematically identify data source/forecast error and follow through on the resolutions to ensure that future plans are updated with improved business processes.
- Requires ability to perform/own reoccurring and ad-hoc business intelligence projects.
- Develop standardized metrics to evaluate and benchmark pertaining to short and long term network planning and forecasting.
- Pull and report data from numerous databases (using Excel, SQL and/or other data management systems) and proven capability to dive deep and utilize known research and problem solving techniques.
- Communicate complex insights to stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.