Amazon India
Amazon India | Sr Forecasting Analyst, Amazon Advertising
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- This role can be based in Seattle or New York.
- As a Sr Forecasting Analyst, you will be responsible for modeling forecasting problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, machine learning, algorithmic, data mining and visualization techniques which you will implement and enhance.
- You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to analyze forecast variances, understand and mitigate variance drivers, identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards.
- The role covers Headcount planning responsibilities as well, which include creating staffing plans, in close partnership with Finance and Ops, leveraging the forecasts you would have generated.
- Design, build and implement innovative forecasting and headcount planning tools and mechanisms, to create a reliable and effective short and long term forecast for a wide range of Amazon Ads departments.
- Build and maintain KPIs that reliably reflect forecasting and staffing accuracy, and downstream impact on the business.
- Create new reporting & analytic opportunities by analyzing and understanding key planning processes.
- Forecast and Strategy team (F&S) Team within Amazon Advertising is looking for an experienced professional with excellent analytical skills and strong business acumen to develop and implement our demand forecasting tools and mechanisms in a fast-paced and innovative environment, at a global scale.
- Produce and communicate Long Range and Short Range forecasts and strategical headcount plans for a variety of business oriented KPIs.
- Write and present documents up to the VP level.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mathematics, engineering, statistics, computer science, business administration or a related field.
- Experience with statistical modeling / machine learning.
- Experience with data scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R, or equivalent) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, or equivalent).
- MBA, or Master's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent.
- Experience with AWS Tools and Technologies (Redshift, S3, EC2).
- Knowledge of Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques.
- Experience with forecasting and statistical analysis
- Experience in automation and programming
About the company
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.
