Description
Amazon Logistics (AMZL) is Amazon's "Last Mile" delivery service, responsible for delivering packages to households and businesses across the planet.
Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while building an extensive portfolio of delivery stations, vans, and technology to deliver customers' packages on time - often next day, sometimes faster.
We augment our traditional "deliver by van" with other models including Amazon Flex (gig economy drivers), Amazon Lockers, and even via Electronic Bikes in urban areas - all designed to deliver smiles to our customers.
You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet.
AMZL Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support our Global Controls, Compliance, and Risk Management team based in Seattle, Nashville or Dallas.
AMZL offers opportunities to grow your career as you engage on one of the many facets of this world-class delivery service.
From here, you will have the opportunity to rotate to other functional areas or roles across Amazon's portfolio of businesses.
As a Senior Financial Analyst on the AMZL Finance team, supporting global Controls, Compliance, and Risk Management, you will be pivotal to the team's success, as you partner with multiple functions to maintain and expand financial controls over Capital Expenditures, Building Construction, Capital Planning.
This role will partner will multiple stakeholders within both finance and the business teams to provide Financial planning and analysis insights for the AMZL network.
This role will provide extensive opportunities to partner with multiple finance and operations teams including Construction, Real Estate, Accounting, Procurement, and Launch Operations to solve tough problems as we grow and develop the Last Mile network.
A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by helping to build scalable, robust, dependable and systemic analysis through data-driven decision making.
Success in this role requires you to partner with and influence finance teams, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to an ever-changing environment.
You will collaborate with all types of stakeholders, from other finance analysts, to functional business teams, to leaders across Finance, Accounting and other business units within Amazon.
You bring best-in-class business partnership while providing strong controllership and control management.
You are comfortable leading variance analysis deep dives, presenting to business owners during reviews, and can pivot between the defined financial rhythms and ad-hoc project analyses.
You use judgment to prioritize high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, while helping to solve complex problems that affect company-wide decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Partners with Finance, Accounting, and business Operations to build and develop a manageable Controls & Compliance environment across key Finance and Operational metrics.
- Partners with Controls & Compliance teams to support a robust, data driven control environment for Amazon Logistics Capital Spending (Capex) for senior leadership, in support of CFO level goals and objectives.
- Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon.
These decisions can have global impact.
- Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
- Participates in hiring, developing, and mentoring peers and team members.
Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities.
- Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively.
Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
- Monitors the AMZL Capital Appropriation Requests (CARs) on a weekly basis
- Helps facilitate outstanding CARs and Open Purchase Orders to remove old spend
- Owner of Depreciation variance analysis and insights
- Analyzes Existing Projects Capex variance during month end close
- Helps with Control review and validation
A day in the life
Partnerships:
- Global Consumer Controllership team
- AMZL Engineering and Launch teams
- Capex Controllership team
- Accounting, Procurements, and IT
- Construction teams under Transportation Engineering Services (TES)
Basic Qualifications
- BA/BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
- 3+ years of finance experience or a related analytical field
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
- Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
- Knowledge of SOX methodology and associated standards (sections 302, 404, AS5, PCAOB, etc.)
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market.
Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Amazon is a total compensation company.
Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.
This position will remain posted until filled.
Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.