Sr Financial Analyst, LATAM Finance Team

Are you interested in helping shape Amazon’s growth story in Brazil? We are looking for a high caliber finance professional who can develop drive our financial analysis and insights to the next level.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for building analytical models and using their financial and business acumen to help drive the business forward.

They will partner with commercial teams and support long-term growth by providing insightful ad-hoc analysis to build product selection, supporting negotiations, and building business cases to assess new opportunities or investments.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, is analytical, detail oriented and will possess the ability to work well with cross-functional teams across Amazon.

• Ideal candidates will have the following strengths:
• - Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.
• - The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions.
• - Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
• - An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth.
• - Solid business judgment and controllership focus.
• - Strong business case modeling skills, including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel

• Key job responsibilities
• At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online in LatAm, this is your chance to make history.
• Finance is all about the numbers…unless you work at Amazon; it’s knowing the numbers and so much more. Enthusiasm and energy help us deliver new ideas, and solutions. Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily? At Amazon, we move with purpose and speed, and this requires we work with a dynamic network of Retail, Operations, Marketing and Tech partners. Our analysts work across teams, help others understand financial decisions and are trusted business advisors. They employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have the most up to date and reliable information to help them make the best possible decision. Come teach us a few things, and we’ll teach you a few things as we navigate Earth's most customer-centric company!

• About the team
• Inclusive team culture
• At Amazon we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

• Work Life Balance
• We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

• Mentorship & Career Growth
• Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic qualifications

• - Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• - Speak, write, and read fluently in English
• - Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
• - Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• - Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
• - Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
• - Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

Preferred qualifications

• - MBA, or CPA
• - Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
• - Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

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