Senior Finance Analyst, Amazon Payments Finance MENA
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Description Amazon Payments seeks a highly skilled and motivated Senior Finance Analyst to support the Amazon Payment Experience initiatives across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa), ZA (South Africa), and TR (Turkey) regions.
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Description
- Amazon Payments seeks a highly skilled and motivated Senior Finance Analyst to support the Amazon Payment Experience initiatives across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa), ZA (South Africa), and TR (Turkey) regions.
- This role is ideal for a finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and is eager to take on a critical role in supporting Amazon's payments strategy in these key regions.
- Key job responsibilities
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop and manage financial models to support short- and long-term financial planning for the Amazon Payment Experience initiatives in the MEATR region. Prepare variance analysis, financial metrics, and reporting to provide insights into business performance.
- Business Partnering: Partner with key business stakeholders, including the Amazon Payments commercial team, to align financial and operational analyses, challenge assumptions, and drive data-driven decision-making. Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment on financial and business goals.
- Controllership & Compliance: Enhance finance controllership through the development and maintenance of models, reports, and processes. Ensure compliance with internal and external policies, including financial and tax-related regulations. Dive deep to ensure reporting accuracy and compliance.
- Strategic Analysis & Recommendations: Conduct financial and strategic analysis to identify opportunities for cost optimization, process improvements, and revenue growth. Provide recommendations to enhance payment experience and improve overall financial performance.
- Project Management: Lead individual projects from start to finish, including managing timelines, auditing quality/progress to plan, setting priorities, and resolving conflicts with minimal oversight. Demonstrate strong ownership and ensure that projects align with broader business and finance goals.
- Automation & Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes. Drive automation initiatives to enhance efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting and analysis.
- Month-End Close & Reporting: Manage month-end close processes, including the preparation of commentary and analysis on key drivers of financial performance. Provide risk and opportunity guidance and present findings to senior management.
- Ad-Hoc Analysis: Perform ad-hoc financial analysis as needed to support business needs and provide insights to senior management. Develop and deliver actionable insights based on data analysis.
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree
- Experience with SQL for data mining and business intelligence
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
- If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.
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