Amazon India | Financial Analyst, GFS FP&A

Responsibilities

• Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.
• The candidate would be responsible for financial close and performing related reporting, accruals etc.
• Additionally, the role would support monthly P&L analysis, perform financial reporting and forecasts, use financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets, and perform headcount reporting, planning and forecasting.
• Manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.

Qualifications

• Experience using data to influence business decisions.
• Experience in managing, evaluating, analyzing data quickly and creating meaningful business reporting.
• Good financial acumen with problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Good interpersonal skills — including written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in VBA, COGNOS and SQL is a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.

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