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Amazon’s North American (NA) Customer Fulfillment (CF) Finance is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst on our NA Central Cost team to deliver financial reporting of operational performance for Finance and Operations leadership. Encompassing Amazon’s leadership principles, this role consolidates complex information into a concise story to help navigate conversations that lead to visibility into productivity and volume/mix, as well as strategic decision making within wage and headcount.

The Role
In this centralized role, you will help tell the NACF operational performance story through analysis, reporting, and business writing. Our team leverages data to help our business partners understand the risks and opportunities which drive NACF operations. In addition to understanding the drivers of our business, we also help frame the financial narrative to lead the business forward.

A successful candidate will be able to effectively influence business partners, provide accurate reporting against fast deadlines, and manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment. Candidates should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with leadership is common.

About the Organization
The NA Central Cost team is an organization within the NA Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and End-to-End (E2E) Optimization organization with ownership of Central Operational Expenditures (Opex). This team encompasses cost management associated with Under-the-Roof (UTR) operations across NACF, Amazon Logistics (AMZL), Amazon Extra Large (AMXL), North America Sort Center (NASC), and Rapid and Rural Logistics (R2L). The team is organized across key pillars; 1) Controllership – Purchase Order lifecycle (POL) management, 2) E2E Category – driving Global Procurement Organization (GPO) led category savings; agnostic of site type, and 3) Business Partnership, PMO and Analytics; scaling through ownership attainment.

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 this tremendous growth 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:
- Create weekly and monthly reports that provide clear, meaningful, and actionable insights about the performance of the business which is shared with senior leaders.
- Responsible for delivering consolidated reporting of weekly/monthly financial close and forecasting cycles utilizing financial systems and advance excel functions.
- Lead standardization of network processes to promote consistent and accurate financial reporting including mechanisms to drive adoption. Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, or simplify finance processes.
- Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with your business partners and influence decisions.
- Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.

Communication:
- You communicate data in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both verbally and in writing.
- You adjust communications based on audience and can articulate complex finance issues to non- Finance partners.
- You have backbone and challenge business partner plans and assumptions when needed.
- You navigate across organizations and identify the right teams to participate in discussions.

Team Leadership:
- You take part in hiring and developing activities and mentor new team members.
- You positively contribute to work/life harmony on your team and find creative solutions to solve gaps for your team.
- You seek, value, and leverage diverse perspectives.