Financial Analyst, EU Hardlines Finance

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Amazon seeks a Finance Analyst to support the FP&A team within EU Hardlines Store Finance. The FP&A Analyst will support the FP&A Lead, Finance Director and VP in decision making through data analysis and business insight.

The Finance Analyst will be a finance partner to the HL finance and business team. Among other things, the role includes responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis. The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, able to manage multiple stakeholders and rapidly changing priorities.

Key job responsibilities
- Perform financial reporting and support weekly performance review and monthly P&L analysis, and Financial forecasts for the Product Family.
- Establish relationships and collaborate with multiple finance and business teams (Retail, Accounting, Operations).
- Support in monthly/quarterly financial closing activity in close co-ordination with business and other finance teams, including document writing.
- Facilitate financial review meetings with business groups and work with business managers to ensure right trade-off between growth and profitability.
- Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modelling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or experience in relevant finance roles
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
- Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results
- Experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to support business decisions
- Experience in commercial finance business partnering or FP&A

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of of financial reporting tools (Cognos, Redshift)
- Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query)
- Experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau)

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