Global Reporting Sr. Analyst

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is a fast paced, dynamic, high-tech company based in Seattle. Amazon’s finance team is searching for bar-raising financial accounting professionals who consistently exceed expectations, who thrive in a challenging workplace, and who can actively contribute to our talented team. The global accounting organization supports financial reporting, internal control, intercompany, and transfer pricing activities and new business launches for Amazon in the consumer products, digital initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business.

The Corporate Reporting Systems (CRS) Global Reporting Sr. Analyst is an internal systems consulting role which delivers systems capabilities to address global reporting and related application support requirements for approximately 1,000 Hyperion Financial Management and Essbase users across Finance. The Global Reporting Sr. Analyst works across multiple Finance and Technology teams to implement tools for process optimization, reporting & analysis, systems requirements definition, and quality assurance testing. They must be Accounting’s systems domain expert for accounting processes, security & data access, application functionality, and systems controls owner for various technology-based solutions. This role requires proficiency in the analysis of system requirements, solution design and ongoing maintenance & support. An effective Global Reporting Sr. Analyst will leverage relevant technical, functional, and process expertise, negotiate, drive alignment and provide product clarity (across multiple reporting systems and multiple stakeholders) for accounting related financial reporting needs.

The Global Reporting Sr. Analyst works continuously and collaboratively across multiple customer/stakeholders and multiple technology teams to clarify requirements, assess options and prioritize plan and implement global reporting solutions. The role focuses on long-term business technology objectives and targeted business outcomes by clarifying automation technology capabilities, assessing and mitigating security risks, ensuring platform scale, availability and stability, managing report based development cycles and providing best-in-class support services. Additional responsibilities include internal control design and implementation to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

Responsibilities include:
· Deliver and maintain reliable, scalable, and efficient Hyperion Reporting solutions by managing requirements gathering, modeling & design, script development, testing and post-implementation maintenance.
· Manage ongoing user support and coordinate change requests with development teams.
· Identify process improvement opportunities to drive innovation, and develop solutions that accelerate timelines and automate manual processes.
· Design and implement security controls for user permissions and system security settings.
· Assist with training delivery and detailed process documentation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· MBA or Master’s Degree with technology/finance/accounting background preferred
· Experience leading/managing contract resources
· Familiarity with AWS solutions such as EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, and Aurora
· Experience with ETL processes and 3rd party tools (FDMEE/ODI, IBM Data Stage, Informatica).
· Experience with SQL authoring and RDBMS database interaction.
· Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Visio, and SharePoint.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

We require a manager/ senior level candidate who has held similar positions in larger public companies or who has held a manager level position with a Big 4 consulting firm serving Fortune 500 clients for seven or more years. Successful candidates will have the equivalent of 3+ years of professional experience implementing and supporting global reporting solutions. Demonstrated experience leading teams (employees and contractors) and hiring/ developing talent to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as an ongoing requirement for this position.

· Degree in computer science, finance, accounting or related field
· 7+ years of relevant Enterprise Reporting application experience, 3+ years’ experience with Oracle Hyperion
· Proven ability to succeed in a dynamic, results-oriented environment, combined with experience leading direct reports and influencing teams in a matrixed environment. Leads with passion and conviction for her/his work, and likewise develops others.
· Maintains highest levels of customer focus and results delivery including comprehensive work intake management, portfolio prioritization, resource planning and customer/ stakeholder alignment.
· Maintains highest standards for service delivery including leads a global team (employees/ contractors) to support customers across multiple regions including issues/incident management and the ability to support critical off-hour requests
· Maintains highest standards for customer/ stakeholder engagement - excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
· Maintains knowledge base of current best practices for accounting processes, accounting applications and financial reporting architecture and design- synthesizes business requirements with technology capabilities
· Proactively identifies risks and implements mitigation plans
· Dives deep, stays connected to details and permanently resolves issues
· Defines and drive Enterprise Reporting application feature and architecture decisions using knowledge of Data Warehouse, BI, OLAP, and dimensional modeling concepts
· Defines measures and maintain high standards for Enterprise Reporting solutions while optimizing system performance, scale and our ability automate
· Own Enterprise Reporting technical backlog and drive product enhancements roadmap incorporating emerging technologies for future automation/features and use cases
· Strong understanding of financial reporting tools (HFM, Essbase, Smart View)