Key job responsibilities
- Business partner with Accounts Receivables leaders across Service Centers and Head Quarter locations to identify, plan and execute on analytical opportunities that enable identification and reduction of transactional defects and work drivers, goal performance measurements, new business expansion health metrics, and operational analysis.
- Proactively perform advanced analytics and financial analysis that support the business prioritise work, identify anomalies, and improve business process.
- Use of Tableau/QuickSight/SQL/Advanced Excel to deliver valuable insights, and invent and simplify.
- Business partner with stakeholders to align, document, and govern metric definitions.
- Participate in cross-team knowledge sharing.
- Creating queries and reporting on-demand.

A day in the life
The Business Analyst will be in charge of building high-performing analytics products relying on SQL, Excel and Tableau / QuickSight. 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. Excel skills (Intermediate / Expert level) and SQL (Basic / Intermediate) are must to deliver on Job 1 in this role.

About the team
Global Data Analytics (GDA) is in charge of all the Finance Operations reporting across Amazon's businesses and geographies. GDA's mission is to be trusted and business-focused analytics partners, providing timely data, analytics, and insights across Service Centers (SCs) and global functions. We are custodians of data and metrics definitions. We apply science methods to large-scale transactional processes. Our vision is to empower the world’s largest Accounts Receivable (AR) and Payable (AP) departments to deliver large scale business outcomes through advanced data capabilities and real time, actionable insights.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of finance experience
- 3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL