Financial Analyst

Amazon.com Sunnyvale, CA February 28, 2018 Finance

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role

As a Financial Analyst, you will work directly with business leaders to identify opportunities and develop business cases. Job responsibilities include:

Leading short and long-term financial planning;
Establishing and maintaining operating and business metrics;
Building financial models for new business concepts;
Presenting financial summaries and business insights to senior management; and
Developing scalable and efficient financial processes that support a rapidly growing business.

The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Lab126 is part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies and is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Basic Qualifications

BA/BS degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related field; and
3+ years of finance/accounting experience.

Preferred Qualifications

MBA or MS in Finance, Economics or a related field;
Demonstrated ability to work independently and self-motivate in a fast paced and rapidly-changing environment;
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities and drive projects to completion;
Demonstrated ability to influence decisions through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning ad the presentation of alternatives;
Advanced Excel skills;
Advanced use of SQL (data mining and business intelligence);
Excellent attention to detail, strong problem solving skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity, and work successfully and effectively on cross-functional team;
Self-starter with strong analytical skills and decision-making capabilities; and,
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment, often cross-functionally.