Financial Analyst Transportation

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon seeks an exceptional Finance Analyst (FA) to support the EU OB Transportation Finance team, based in Luxembourg. As a finance leader, you will be responsible for defining and driving key financial projects in Europe. In this position, you will drive strategic initiatives to improve overall cost efficiency in context of CX performance, improve our financial reporting & forecasting relevance, quality and efficiency, and provide decision support to key stakeholders. The Financial Analyst will work closely with a variety of stakeholders, including retail finance consumer, internal Amazon middle and last mile carriers, Central Supply Chain and EU Inbound/Outbound Transportation.

The successful candidate will have the ability to tackle multiple projects and efficiently execute deliverables. The position will also require to be strategic, analytical, and have the demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. This is a role with high exposure to senior management across Amazon businesses and requires structured thinking and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities include:

· Drive large scale projects across EU with a significant P&L impact by interacting with our key partners in finance and business.
· Build and enhance financial models used to understand & optimise the company’s transportation cost/revenue.
- Identify & drive execution of opportunities to improve our cost efficiency in specific countries or across our network.
· Compile/review financial results and plans and communicate results to company leaders.
· Equip the management with regular actionable reporting to enable decision making.
· Drive team productivity by automating and outsourcing reporting and analysis.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· MBA, MSc or MEng (Computer Sciences, Economics, Business Admin, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent).
· Experience in operations/supply chain/manufacturing environments.
· Experience in advanced ERP and BI solutions (MS BI, Oracle/Hyperion, etc.)

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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 4+ years experience in finance related environment.
· Advanced skills in SQL, COGNOS, MS Office.
· Exposure on statistical software tools: SAS, SPSS, R, Python or Matlab.
· Experience in data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Microstrategy).
· Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking.
· Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to think clearly and drive issues to solution.
· Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to develop ideas independently, and to multitask as needed in a fast-paced environment.
· High attention to details within frame of structured and organized thinking.