Senior Financial Analyst, Returns Planning Finance

Amazon's Returns Planning Finance is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to be the trusted finance partner supporting operational and functional leaders. Amazon operates the most complex retail networks in the world, delivering billions of packages to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses annually. Come be part of our journey and join a dedicated team committed to operational and financial excellence, where you will focus on the inputs, think like an owner, and where every day is Day One.

Key job responsibilities

Business Finance Support:

• Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with some guidance. Draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, and drive improvements.
• Align financial and operational analyses with your business partners, challenging business partner assumptions when necessary.
• Leverage AI tools to provide analysis and recommendations to business leaders to support operational and growth business decisions and action plans.
• Identify opportunities to resolve finance defects using AI. Improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes across teams and organizations.

Controllership:

• Own the financial planning and reporting for a business area and may teach others in areas of financial reporting.
• Identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.
• Develop and execute data analysis processes that are scalable and auditable.

Communication:

• Intuitively utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues.
• Create effective business partnership with Planning, CX, and MFN teams.
• Have backbone and challenge business partner plans and assumptions when needed.

About the team

This role will partner closely with a broad range of Senior Leaders in Finance, Returns Planning, CX, Operations, and Accounting. This role plays a critical role as a financial advocate and business partner. This role will design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.