Financial Analyst Iii

Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

Global Logistics at Amazon is growing and you should join us We are looking for a driven and analytical Finance Manager who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment to support the Destination business. What is Destination? It is all the transportation modes that move imports freight from ocean ports to inland warehouses. The role will require learning quickly to understand the big picture of how Global Logistics fits into Amazon's overall supply chain, gaining proficiency in our data to capture the right details, communicating clearly to effectively partner with business leaders to influence decisions. This role requires a Finance Manager who demonstrates high judgement with an ability to drive strategic and tactical goals to improve the economics of the business.

This role partners closely with a broad range of finance and business leaders. The key stakeholders are operations executional teams, long term planning teams, product teams, and FP&A. This role works with program managers, supply chain managers, and product managers. A typical day as the Finance Manager will provide an opportunity to own high-impact projects that drive cost out of the business, build out accurate and insightful reporting, and develop influential frameworks that drive key decision making for an evolving business.
As a Finance Manager, you’ll play a core role in a number of projects at any one time. By tracking performance metrics, analysing data and building financial models, you’ll identify where we can drive better efficiency and productivity. You’ll also show us how different scenarios impact our business from a financial perspective, which is vital for many of our stakeholders to make business decisions. You will be monitoring costs on the Destination side and providing regular updates to our main stakeholders within Operations, EU Inbound team and our WW Global Logistics partners. Strong emphasis on constant improvement and alignment between Retail and FBA costs.

Key job responsibilities
- Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.
- Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel and SQL functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
- Creates effective business partnerships, manages competing priorities, and provides guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events
- Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
- Collects and analyses quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
- Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities.
- Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
- Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and an effective influencer for new team members.

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The role will be based in Luxembourg.

Luxembourg, LUX
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)