Amazon India | Financial Analyst, GREF FP&A

Responsibilities

• If you want to be a part of a fast moving, dynamic initiative then this is the role for you!
• This role will be primarily responsible for financial analysis and global support in managing GREF Vendors with activities including vendor set up, PO launch, Invoice and payment support, supporting in the preparation of annual budgeting and forecasting processes, and controllership on monthly Opex accruals.
• This individual will work with global business partners, local facilities teams, accounting teams, and other internal and external stakeholders and contributes to achievement of key goals.
• This position requires a proactive, highly motivated individual with an aptitude for process improvement, who can assist in the strategic allocation of programs and resources.
• Work closely with Regional Finance team to provide consistent messaging regarding billing and ensure accuracy in financial reporting.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to develop vendor solutions, crucial for resolving issues collaboratively.
• Lead process improvement efforts, and work directly with international team members to simplify and centralize the billing process for the organization.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis on customer impacting issues, a valuable skill.
• Support organizational/operational projects and meets KPIs as common responsibilities.
• Partner with your team and develop all weekly and monthly financial close activities, all planning, forecasting, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation.
• Identify, Develop key business opportunities and drive efficiency while balancing customer promise.
• Manage new vendor setup, Annual PO Launch and fund management.
• Address account inquiries/concerns, ensures vendor tool usage, and drives defect resolution as part of important vendor management activities.
• Underlying root cause issues quickly and uncover core issues using data, then assist, consult with, and teach the business how decisions affect costs in their sites.

Requirements

• Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with your business partners –influence the decisions.
• Expertise in collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data, creating analyses.
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
• Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
• 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: Essbase, Cognos)
• Experience in managing, evaluating, analyzing data quickly and creating meaningful business reporting.
• Good financial acumen with problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Good in managing competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• 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