Description

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA is seeking a Finance Analyst to support our India Business Team.

The Financial Analyst will partner with Amazon Pay India Private Ltd (APIPL) and Amazon Seller Services Private Ltd (ASSPL) along with FOAA Accounting Finance teams (based in India) to support in daily finance operations and payments to customers / sellers for India marketplaces. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced business at Amazon. The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to manage the financial responsibilities of a high-growth business. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and demonstrate strong leadership skills.

The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities. The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of an extremely dynamic and high-paced environment, support a global organization and work with accounting and business teams. The role offers significant opportunities for rapid growth and is a great place to learn about various businesses at Amazon.

-Work independently to manage operations and support Amazon's India Business Team in the design and implementation of payment methods, new products and offerings.

-Provide project management update within and across business units to transition new processes and/or permanent solutions to support the business needs.

-Coordinate with the Business and Technology partners to establish and maintain strong communication channels.

-Identify, implement, and adhere to best practices across all new project launches.

-Offering and receiving coaching, support, and guidance to the team.

-Assisting on measuring and reporting progress on key goals / metrics for the business in a timely manner.

-Provide inputs for weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner. Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time.

-Perform ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.

-Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.

-Prepares and reviews complex account reconciliations, financial analyses, and deliverables.

-This position will also play an important role in promoting systems/process development within department to ensure ongoing efficiency and control improvements. The successful candidate will have a strong desire in innovating processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation on behalf of our customers.

-Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.

-Provide response to internal and external audit requirements.

-Drive process improvements required to enhance controls and quality of reconciliations and related processes. Build and monitor performance metrics, with principal focus on ensuring timely delivery of reports, reconciliations and other deliverables.

-Maintain monthly communications and metrics reporting with Director and VP level business partners in finance operations, central accounting and FOAA. Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required.

Key job responsibilities

• Experience using data to influence business decisions

• CA with 0-4yrs of experience

• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills

• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

• Good Communication skills

• Good Articulation skills

• Well versed with MS Excel

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of finance experience

• 2+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

• 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills

• Experience using data to influence business decisions

• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL