Amazon India | Financial Analyst, AWS Finance

Responsibilities

• Amazon seeks a Financial Analyst to join the AWS Finance team based out of Hyderabad, India.
• The candidate will be responsible for creating month end close reports, dashboards and supporting processes for various AWS finance teams.
• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Prepare, review, and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• FP&A: knowledge in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis processes; develop financial models to support strategic planning and business reviews.
• Month-End & Year-End Close: Manage end-to-end close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and intercompany eliminations.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to provide financial insights, identify cost optimization opportunities, and support operational decision-making.
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and best practices to enhance efficiency and accuracy in financial operations.
• Compliance & Controls: Ensure adherence to internal controls, audit requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Reporting & Dashboards: Build and maintain financial dashboards, KPIs, and management reports to provide visibility into business performance.
• Ad Hoc Analysis: Conduct deep-dive analyses on cost drivers, revenue trends, and profitability to support leadership in making informed decisions.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication, attention to details and technical ability to implement report automation is a preferred requirement for this position.
• 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience.
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills.
• Can demonstrate strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query).

Amazon India

Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookshop and is today one of the world's largest companies, spanning online retail, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), digital media, devices and advertising. It is headquartered in Seattle and listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Amazon launched its Indian marketplace, Amazon.in, in 2013, and its businesses in India now include the marketplace, Amazon Pay, Amazon Business, Prime Video and AWS, which runs two Indian cloud regions — Mumbai (2016) and Hyderabad (2022). Its Hyderabad campus, opened in 2019, was at the time Amazon's largest campus building anywhere in the world.

Beyond serving Indian customers, Amazon's India offices handle a significant share of the company's global finance work: finance operations (accounts payable, receivables and payments), controllership and accounting, worldwide direct and indirect tax reporting, financial planning and business finance for its retail, AWS and payments businesses, and audit, risk and compliance programmes. These roles suit CA, CMA, CPA, ACCA and MBA (Finance) profiles as well as B.Com and M.Com graduates.

• Industry: E-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital payments and logistics
• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA (parent: Amazon.com, Inc.); India operations based in Bengaluru
• In India: Corporate offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune, with fulfilment and delivery centres across India