Description

Amazon's vision is to be the earths most customer centric company . The ambition of the Amazon payments business is to transform payments in India; simplifying lives and fulfilling aspirations by solving the payment and financial needs of every Indian, by making paying for anything trusted rewarding and convenient. The role requires the candidate to co-pilot the business with respective category leaders and co-own the complete P&L. It involves partnering with business teams for Get Big, Get Close and Get Fit plans. This is an IC role reporting into the finance leader for Payment Acceptance (PAE). The role requires team-work and building a business perspective. The individual will have to interact extensively with other members within the team, across business lines offering steep learning curve, adding a fair amount of business skills to the individual.

If you’re obsessed with being a part of customer obsessed and high growth oriented digital payment organization that helps customers deliver great payment experience, then we want you to come join us and make Amazon Pay even better. We are a motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth profitable business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future vision for Amazon.

This position is based at the Amazon India headquarters in Bangalore.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

• Planning - preparing annual and long-range operating plans at a category and sub category level; gauging actual performance against plan and providing quarterly guidance.

• Driving weekly/ monthly reviews around business performance, anchoring debate around actionable business insights with leadership team.

• Providing decision support for evaluating new business opportunities and giving Go/No-Go recommendations for bidding for onboarding new categories through establishing evaluation framework.

• Controllership - The role requires the candidate to collaborate with Business Ops, FinOps and Accounting team for accounting set up of new use cases, establishing and ensuring compliance to operational and financial controls & procedures; accurate closure of financial books.

• Identifying and leading cost optimization measures to navigate business towards its LRF growth and profitability markers.

A day in the life

The Finance Analyst will be a key business partner with the Payment leadership team to assist in maximizing the potential of Amazon Payment Products. The position is responsible for financial planning and analysis for this high growth business. In this role, you will be responsible for all financial controllership, metrics and overall financial analysis. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity; detail oriented and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams including categories, Business Ops, FP&A, Accounting, Legal teams and Tech teams.

About the team

If you’re obsessed with being a part of customer obsessed and high growth oriented digital payment organization that helps customers deliver great payment experience, then we want you to come join us and make Amazon Pay even better. We are a motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth profitable business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future vision for Amazon.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• 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)