Amazon.com Services Looking for Senior Financial Analyst, Ww Ops Finance Fulfillment Analytics at Bellevue, WA, United States Full Time

Job Description

• BS or BA
• Combination of 5+ years of fulfillment center / warehouse operations and finance experience
• Experience working with FC Labor Management (FCLM) or any Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Strong understanding of fulfillment center / warehouse process paths including receiving, stow/putaway, pick, pack, ship, and supports

Job summary
This finance role has breath and depth, allocating substantial fulfillment center variable costs, which includes labor costs, to the business on a global scale. Our business partners are Product Category finance teams; Hardlines, Softlines, Media, Consumable, Device, Zappos, FBA, and many more. We make sure the costs we allocate to them are accurate so that they have a quality P&L. We bring expense visibility to our business partners and work very closely with them to deep dive into cost anomalies. With insight into costs, we help our business partners to make the right decisions. Accurate and timely MEC (month-end-closing) and Planning of costs, good project management, dependable interaction with stakeholders, and insightful data analytics are keys to success in this role.

We are part of the GCF (Global Customer Fulfillment) Analytics team. We are responsible for allocating fulfillment center variable and fixed costs to Retail and FBA businesses. Our team predicts variable rates for Contribution Profit (CP) system and supports Fulfill to Promise (F2P) system. We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team to manage Global Allocation Method (GAM), our variable cost allocation engine. We are seeking individuals with strong finance skills, strong analytical skills, sound technical skills, sound business judgment, and effective communication. If you are looking to join a team with Global Scale and Financial Impact, in which you can use your superpower to automate processes, create data tools, and drive customer obsession, our team can offer all these.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage Global Allocation Method (GAM), our variable cost engine and improve month end closing activities to make sure costs allocated are accurate
• Create and maintain allocation bridge and dashboard to provide insight to business partners and help them make sound business decisions
• Dive deep and help internal customers find root causes on cost issues, drive the issues if necessary
• Allocate variable planning costs to businesses
• Partner with the FinTech team to invent and simplify variable cost engine, enhance the system for business changes, and automate processes as much as possible

A day in the life
Month end closing is 2 days in the month and does not require full day of works. MEC is automated but there are auditing works to make sure allocation is accurate. Bridging after MEC and communicating with business partners is about 2 days. Most of the time in the month will be spent on data analytics, helping business partners on cost analytics, enhancing allocation engine, and improving and automating processes.

About the team
We strive to create a supportive yet stimulating culture in our team. We have daily stand up call in which each member takes turn to brief what they are working on. In many instants, we invite each other to meetings outside their responsibilities so they can learn and help brainstorm solutions. One-on-one is done on a weekly basis with the team manager. Career development is an important part of these 1:1 sessions.

• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Beginner to intermediate SQL
• Familiarity with concepts of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results; effective multi-tasking skills are vital
• Demonstrated effective communication and presentation skills working with multiple peer groups and senior levels of management
• Experience in an E-Commerce, Retail or Logistics Warehousing company, or as a supplier to E-Commerce/Retail company

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