Business Analyst II, Global Data Analytics (GDA), Finance Operations

The Business Analyst will be a part of the high-visibility, growth-oriented, and dynamic Finance Operations, Global Data & Analytics (GDA) team. The GDA team is seeking talented and deeply focused Business Analyst who can develop a deep understanding of the business, build reporting objects, identify automation use cases, and use analytics and automation to influence business outcomes. The role will develop analytics and automation solutions that empower one of the world's largest Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable teams to operate at scale and resolve process defects. The role will navigate ambiguity to rapidly build their knowledge of Amazon's "Order to Cash" and "Procure to Pay" processes (and their accompanying data sets) to become a trusted analytics and automation partner for our 2,000+ business partners across Finance Operations Headquarters and Service Centers

Key job responsibilities

• Business partner with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable leaders across Service Centers and Headquarter locations to identify, plan and execute analytics and automation opportunities that enable identification and reduction of transactional defects and work drivers, goal performance measurements, new business expansion health metrics, and operational analysis.
• Proactively perform advanced analytics and financial analysis that support the business prioritise work, identify anomalies, and improve business process.
• Use of QuickSuite/SQL/Python to deliver valuable insights and automations, and invent and simplify.
• Business partner with stakeholders to align, document, and govern metric definitions and process understanding.
• Participate in cross-team knowledge sharing.

A day in the life
The Business Analyst will be in charge of building high-performing analytics products relying on SQL and QuickSuite. The role will business partner across global Finance Operations to become an expert in core business processes, and will work backwards to enhance metric governance, identify and action analytical opportunities, and leverage data to build compelling business cases that influence our operations. SQL skills (Intermediate / Expert level) is a must to deliver on Job 1 in this role.

About the team
Global Data Analytics (GDA) is in charge of all the Finance Operations reporting across Amazon's businesses and geographies. GDA's mission is to be trusted and business-focused analytics and automation partners, providing timely data, analytics, and insights across Service Centers (SCs) and global functions. We are custodians of data and metrics definitions. We apply science methods to large-scale transactional processes. Our vision is to empower the world’s largest Accounts Receivable (AR) and Payable (AP) departments to deliver large scale business outcomes through advanced data capabilities and real time, actionable insights.