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.
We are seeking a Financial Analyst with strong financial analysis background to provide support for the Contribution Profit (CP) product owned by Profitability & Business Metric Services (PBMS), which is part of the Selling Partner Services (SPS) organization. SPS is responsible for several key elements of Amazon’s flywheel which ensures low prices for our customers, provides a rich tool kit for our Selling Partners to work with Amazon, drives traffic and increased conversion through replenishment and promotion programs, and drives profitability and controllership insights to lower Amazon's cost structure. PBMS develops systems and mechanisms that deliver profitability metrics, insights and automated decision-making for the WW Stores businesses and flywheel; such as Historical Contribution Profit (HCP), Forward Looking Contribution Profit (FLCP), and Turismo.
CP data is used to drive informed decision-making at multiple levels. It provides item-level profitability metrics (P&Ls) for each item shipped and is used in both managerial reporting and automated systems across the WW Stores business. CP utilizes economic, financial, and business fundamentals that attributes hundreds of revenue and cost pools to millions of shipments each day, specific to that shipment's unique life cycle within Amazon.
You will be partnering with stakeholders across various finance, accounting, business, and technical teams in 23 marketplaces to audit, develop, and implement CP allocation methodologies that assign billions of dollars of revenue and cost to millions of shipments. As a finance partner, you will own building mechanisms to drive controllership, accuracy, insights and innovation in these products which directly ties to measurable, large scale improvements and insights for the business, finance, sellers and our customers. You will gain experience and help shape the fundamental aspects that drive the Amazon Retail and Seller businesses.
This role operates in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. It requires the ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication; including logical reasoning, clear data analyses, as well as the presentation of alternatives and trade-offs. The successful candidate must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically in an ambiguous environment with many stakeholders and opinions.
Ultimately, this individual should possess solid business judgment, strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a strong desire to dive deep into business problems and help solve them.
This role will be a good fit if you:
- are highly analytical and detailed oriented with a passion for diving deep into processes, systems, and data
- create new processes and mechanisms to drive controllership on inputs and outputs of the business
- technically savvy and excited about partnering with a technical team to solve large scale, impactful problems
- able to communicate complex issues in a clear and concise way
- thrive in fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, are able to multi-task with several priorities
- have solid conceptual thinking and problem solving skills
- are able to work with large sets of data
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute audit programs to identify missing or incorrectly allocated revenue/cost pools in Contribution Profit and provide detailed findings/root cause analyses to stakeholders
- Partner with a diverse set of global stakeholders to to improve or develop and propose new allocation methodologies for revenue and cost pools in Contribution Profit
- Provide validation and impact analysis support for program launches
- Develop and automate governance and financial controllership mechanisms to ensure accountability, data quality and accuracy through all aspects of the business workflow
- Dive deep into financial activity, build bridging and identify/develop benchmarks to properly measure allocation accuracy and conduct variance analyses
- Identify automation and tooling opportunities to drive efficiency and improvements in the audit and allocation processes
- Gather, reconcile and analyze very large datasets through SQL and other analytical tools (e.g. Excel, Quicksight)
- Identify, develop and communicate key metrics, achievements, and opportunities to help our business partners understand the needs of our customers and drive product enhancements
- Effectively manage multiple projects/workstreams and provide essential input on prioritization of enhancements, features, and projects
- Facilitate financial review meetings with cross-functional business, technical, and senior management
About the team
PBMS Finance is the primary finance partner for CP products (HCP and FLCP) and all customer facing analytical tools within Profit Intelligence (e.g. Phoenix, Cost to Serve Slicing, CP to P&L bridging) and Chronicle products (e.g. Turismo). These tools drive critical decisions such as pricing, selection and key business insights for Amazon and power Amazon's flywheel.
