About This Role
The Financial Analyst II gathers and analyzes economic, financial, and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management. This role prepares financial reports, analyzes performance, identifies process improvement opportunities, and drives positive change. It suits a candidate with a strong understanding of accounting principles and experience in financial modeling and project management.
Responsibilities
- Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial, and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management
- Prepare various deliverables to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals
- Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes, reporting, and controls, and drive positive change across the organization
- Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate the application of GAAP to peers and business partners
- Participate in writing white papers to support a given accounting position
- Provide management and direction to junior analysts, including overseeing and reviewing reporting and Excel spreadsheet work papers
- Document processes
- Assess internal controls, identify gaps in the control process, and design additional controls to solve deficiencies
- Oversee the monthly close process, working closely with the finance team to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management
- Act independently to complete multiple cross-functional projects with complex objectives
- Create and maintain reports
- Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related analytical field
- Three years of experience in finance or a related analytical field
- One year of experience in building and managing financial models for business forecasting and variance analysis using advanced Excel spreadsheet techniques such as vlookups and pivot tables
- One year of experience in analyzing business processes
- One year of experience in designing and implementing controls
- One year of experience in financial reporting
- One year of experience in managing cross-functional financial projects including project design, requirements, and implementation
Important Details
- Schedule: 40 hours per week, 8:00am-5:00pm
About the Company
Amazon.com Services LLC is an employer that values diversity and inclusion.
