Amazon India | Sr. Business Analyst, Global Data Analytics (GDA), Finance Operations

Responsibilities

• This role will be instrumental in driving data-driven decision-making across our global finance operations, focusing on process optimization, financial analytics, and business intelligence solutions.
• The role will develop analytical solutions that empower one of the world’s largest Accounts Payable and Receivable teams to operate at scale and resolve process defects by identifying and measuring them through advanced data analytics.
• The role will be a trusted analytics partner for our 2,000+ business partners across Finance Operations Headquarters and Service Centers and will be leading the data analytics products solutions across Accounts Payables and Accounts receivables.
• The role will business partner across global Finance Operations to become an expert in core business processes, and will work backwards to enhance metric governance, identify and action analytical opportunities, and leverage data to build compelling business cases that influence our operations.
• Lead complex data analysis projects to identify operational efficiency opportunities and drive process improvements across global finance operations.
• Develop and maintain advanced financial models, dashboards, and reporting solutions to support strategic decision-making.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyze business processes, and implement data-driven solutions.
• Conduct thorough analysis of financial and operational metrics to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for optimization.
• Design and implement KPIs and metrics to measure operational performance and financial health.
• Create and maintain documentation for processes, methodologies, and analytical frameworks.
• Partner with stakeholders to align, thoroughly document, and govern metric definitions.
• Partner with Accounts Payables and Receivable leaders across Service Centers and Headquarters locations to identify, plan and execute on analytical opportunities to reduce defects and work drivers, improve goal performance, support new business expansion and operational analysis.
• Use Tableau/QuickSight/SQL to deliver valuable insights,

Qualifications

• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights.
• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders.

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