Financial Analyst I, Global Financial Audit

Amazon is seeking a Financial Analyst to support its Global Financial Audit program. If you view problems as treasures and enjoy diving deep to identify root causes and developing long-term, scalable solutions, this is the job for you!
The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and high paced environment in a role that supports a global organization and offers significant opportunities for rapid growth.
The Financial Analyst will partner with Global Retail and Finance teams to support various analytical, planning, reporting and audit needs.
This role supports the operational function related to vendor funded activities with wide-ranging responsibilities, including performing analysis to identify defects, patterns and trends across vendor contracts and set-ups, quality review, and executing the fix in vendor contracts/agreements for billing. This position is expected to have a strong sense of ownership, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, and enhance partnerships between the audit team and various business and IT groups. Candidates for this role are expected to have excellent communication and organization skills and should be able to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to accounting, finance, business and IT leadership. The candidate must be analytical, have superior attention to detail, and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and demonstrate strong leadership skills.

Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:

• Perform audits across Amazon Financial Systems using Amazon internal and third-party tools with the highest degree of accuracy
• Perform reviews of audit findings to maintain a high bar on quality and provide constructive feedback to the team
• Partner with various accounting and finance vertical teams (Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable) to ensure procedures and controls are routinely applied whist performing accounting and operations
• Contribute to process improvements required to enhance controls and/or optimize team productivity
• Lead standard operating procedure (SOP) document enhancements and calibration
• Support monthly/quarterly financial closing activities in close co-ordination with business and accounting teams
• Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner. Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders
• Perform ad-hoc business analysis and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives
• Participate in recruiting efforts and continually raise the bar
• Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects, as appropriate

About the team
Global Financial Audit (GFA) is a Finance function operating through both internal and external teams with the objective to recover missed or underbilled funding, overpayments and savings due to Amazon from current and prior periods. Scope includes Stores Vendors (Inventory), Non-Inventory Vendors (construction, contract compliance etc.), Corporate, Subsidiaries and affiliated business units, wherever possible. In addition, GFA works proactively with upstream tech and process owning teams to identify and reduce defects based on root cause reporting owned by GFA, and focuses on vendor experience improvements by reviewing vendor contacts/correspondence and monthly vendor experience metrics.