Senior Finance Analyst, EU Amazon Logistics

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127Job Description:*** This role can be based either in London, UK or Madrid, Spain ***

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and, when the box arrived, you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you?

Amazon Logistics (AMZL) is Amazon’s “Last Mile” delivery service, responsible for delivering packages to customers across the world. The AMZL network is undergoing quick growth and change on a global scale. Our teams are changing the way we interact with customers every single day and solving some of the biggest logistical issues facing not just Amazon, but the entire industry. AMZL is developing an innovative world-class Last Mile operation with a portfolio of buildings, vehicles, and technology to deliver customers’ packages on time and tailored to our ever-changing customer expectations. AMZL Finance teams partner closely with global cross-functional business and tech teams to support this rapidly expanding business; promoting controllership, innovation, productivity, and cost-effective operations across the network in a fast-paced environment.

OVERVIEW
We are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst that is excited to join a tech company that is constantly improving and re-imagining the logistics industry. Our candidate should be passionate about using data to solve big, complex and ambiguous problems. The candidate should be eager to continuously learn and improve their skills. You should be attentive to which details make all the difference. Do you want to contribute shaping the new standard of shopping? If so, come and join the AMZL Finance Team.

As part of the AMZL Finance team, you will join a team that is motivated about numbers, data, and how to use them to generate insights and improve our business. We support and influence the AMZL organization by providing a holistic and financial perspective, we are the trusted business advisors. We collaborate with our partners to ensure leaders to have the most up to date and reliable information, and work with them to make sure AMZL is making the best possible decisions.

Key job responsibilities
– Partner with Finance, Accounting, and business Operations to build and develop a manageable Controls & Compliance environment across key Finance and Operational metrics.
– Partner with Global Controls & Compliance teams to support a robust, data driven control environment for Amazon Logistics Capital Spending (Capex) for senior leadership, in support of CFO level goals and objectives.
– Financial Planning, Reporting, Analysis and Controlling capital expenditure and depreciation for our expanding delivery station network as well as process improvement and mechanization initiatives – reviewing expenditure against project plans
– Supporting the business in the development of capital expenditure costings, scrutinizing plans, validating savings and driving maximum value and collaborating with business and accounting teams to execute monthly and quarterly controls
– Build trusted partnership with the business to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions promoting business improvements and cost reductions. Communicates data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Your communications drive critical business actions.

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

London, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor’s degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
– Six Sigma Black Belt
– Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
– Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
– 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
– Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
– Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- MBA, or CPA
– Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
– 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)

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