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Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Grocery - AI-Native FP&A, WW Grocery Stores FP&A

Amazon.com Inc
  • Austin, TX
    1 day ago

    Job Description

    How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with disrupting a trillion dollar industry?

    The WW Grocery Stores FP&A organization is dedicated to working closely with our leadership teams, including Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and core Amazon.com, to report performance and formulate the medium and long term financial and strategic plans for grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon. We seek to increase efficiency and profitability by analyzing financial and operational results/plans to better understand business performance and communicate it to senior management.

    We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support planning cycles and strategic projects. This role supports the senior leadership team within Amazon grocery business and will own delivering key planning reports, leading periodic reviews, providing valuable insight for decision-making, and recommending cost-saving opportunities. The role also offers the opportunity to think creatively about how we work-automating and standardizing processes, building solutions that leverage AI, and partnering with tech teams to enhance our reporting tools and data infrastructure.

    This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across our organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. The leader must be effective at working through teams to consolidate and articulate the overall drivers of current and future performance as well as providing timely and accurate insight to Amazon senior leadership. That means the leader is a collaborator and good at stitching together multiple inputs to tell an accurate and insightful story of what's happening. The leader needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. Excellent analytical and verbal/written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are self-starters, analytical, collaborate and influence business/finance partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment, and think long-term.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Support planning cycles (e.g., rest-of-year, 1-year, 3-year, 10-year), including preparing financials reports and P&Ls, conducting in-depth analysis, and collecting key insight from finance partners.
    • Drive strategic projects across our Amazon Grocery banners.
    • Provide valuable insight for decision-making and financial planning.
    • Analyze and recommend cost-saving opportunities.
    • Support WW Amazon Stores Finance (IPAT) and Corporate FP&A to communicate grocery plans and performance to Amazon senior leadership and Board of Directors.
    • Continue developing the team's vision, establish a positive team culture, and develop top talent.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationAustin, TX
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Cost Analysisunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Database Report Toolsunmatched
    • Decision Supportunmatched
    • Entrepreneurshipunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Analysisunmatched
    • Financial Operationsunmatched
    • Financial Planningunmatched
    • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
    • Financial Reportingunmatched
    • Financial Strategyunmatched
    • Grocery Storesunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Operational Auditunmatched
    • Operations Planningunmatched
    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Profit & Lossunmatched
    • Profit & Loss Analysisunmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Talent Managementunmatched
    • Team Buildingunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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