Overview
Global Finance Solutions (GFS) is looking for a Business Analyst II (Level 5) responsible for the development and implementation of Business Intelligence and analytics in the Finance functions. GFS is a finance department that manages the accounting, reporting and analysis work for integral finance teams in Amazon. GFS FP&A; services management-reporting activities, is a key contributor in planning, budgeting & forecasting activities, leverages data analytics and visualization to drive standardization & automation on projects, and develops plug and play tools for Finance teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Financial Analysts, BI Engineers and Business stakeholders to design, develop influence operational best practices for reporting and analytics
- Bring an analytical and consulting mindset to look at existing processes, programs and develop strategies to improve business performance and mitigate risk
- Ideate and develop analytics to spot trends & outliers, create scenarios and develop forecasts, generate insights through predictive analytics
- Perform data related activities - data discovery, cleaning, engineering, analysis & visualization on multiple technology stacks, to improve operational & business outcomes
- Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format
- Participate in business requirements discussion and translate functional requirements into detailed systems design documents
- Effectively communicate status, issues, and escalations to leadership and business stakeholders
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in creating requirements documents and process flows
- Experience conducting large scale data analysis to support business decision making
- Verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Be self-driven, and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or dirty data
- An ability and interest in working in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment
- Advanced ability to draw insights from analysis supported by data and clearly communicate them to the stakeholders and senior management as required
- Be self-driven, and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data
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