Amazon Global Procurement Finance is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its Category Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to create and innovate on behalf of our internal customers and build the procurement organization of the future.

The Senior Financial Analyst will be a finance partner to the relevant Category business team supporting implementation of sourcing strategy through thoughtful insights and financial analysis. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis.

The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and have the demonstrated ability to effectively manage the finances of a large organization. Global Procurement Finance provides opportunities, and the scope, to grow your career as you engage in one of the many facets of Procurement.

Key job responsibilities
- Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling.
- Contribute to business decisions by providing insightful analysis and methodical consideration for the end-to-end impact to systems, financial controls and ongoing support requirements.
- Identify opportunities and drive automation in existing manual process
- Facilitate financial review meetings with cross functional teams and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management.
- Manage the annual financial planning & analysis and quarterly budgeting exercise accurately, completely and in a timely basis
- Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
- Facilitate the Business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items.


A day in the life
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following abilities: they influence business owners, effectively lead meetings with senior leaders, support thoughtful decision-making through data, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. This individual will also play a key role in decision making and developing financial insights as part of monthly and quarterly business reviews. This individual is able to drive network scale initiatives, enforce standard work, review and action purchase requests, develop and lead cost business reviews, and provide ad-hoc analysis on large or ambiguous tasks.