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How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with disrupting a trillion dollar industry?

Who we are:
The Grocery Finance organization is dedicated to help shape the long-term strategy and future of grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon.

Career Opportunities:
As we continue to grow, we are looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon and within the broader Physical Stores Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams and to lead new programs and initiatives.


The Role:
As a Finance Analyst on the Grocery Finance team, you will support the Amazon Fresh marketing team that is tasked with building brand awareness, customer acquisition, engagement and loyalty. You will partner with marketing managers and creative directors to understand our customers in-depth, outline the key levers that help grow the customer base, and provide thoughtful analyses that help in investment decisions with high ROI. The data-based tools and process simplification you develop will directly impact the quality of decisions in marketing investment which in turn will help in making Amazon Fresh the earth's most customer-centric grocery business! You will provide strategic decision support and financial controllership necessary to drive profitable growth of both our brick-and-mortar stores as well as our online grocery delivery business.

Team Exposure/Scope:
This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across the Physical Stores, Grocery and Amazon Prime organizations.

Success in this role:
Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are a self-starter, they collaborate and influence business partners, they have financial modeling skills, and support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment and think long-term


Key job responsibilities
- Partner with the Amazon Fresh marketing team and provide thoughtful and scalable decision-support tools and analytical frameworks to evaluate and implement marketing investments targeted as acquiring, engaging and retaining grocery customers.
- Oversee financial planning, performance reporting, metrics creation, investment decisions, and storytelling surrounding our customers, topline growth, and marketing investments.
- Use financial systems, advanced MS Excel functions, and SQL/databases to work with large data sets.
- Drive accountability across the Marketing team team through weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews.
- Work with a variety of data sources. Identify incomplete or inaccurate data, root causes of data issues, escalate discrepancies, fix data where possible or partner with data owners to deliver a solution.
- Identify and implement solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
- Make thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritize work, resolve issues, meet deadlines, and seek feedback from your manager. Discern between urgent and non-urgent issues and act accordingly to solve them.