Sr Financial Analyst, Selling Partner Services Finance
We are seeking a Sr Financial Analyst to lead Amazon's global 3P fee strategy for services related to Selling On Amazon. Our 3P (Third-Party) business includes Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) and Merchant Fulfillment Network (MFN) channels.
With Sellers contributing to over 50% of Amazon’s online sales, 3P Fee strategy is integral to Amazon’s ability to deliver on its goal of offering a vast selection of products at low prices to customers.
The successful candidate will have strong analytical background, track record of effective business partnership, and ability to deliver results in an ambiguous, fast-paced, and dynamic environment.
The candidate must have the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders to understand topline and cost drivers, and deliver high quality insights to senior leaders to influence fee strategy.
Key job responsibilities
- The role will support the WW FBA inventory management and Referral Fee strategy domains including fee change analysis, cost reporting & analytics, and fee revenue forecasting.
- Develop financial models and advanced analytical tools to identify fee optimization opportunities and influence fee decisions
- Lead ad hoc analytics projects to guide fee strategy and data science work
- Support long range planning and quarterly revenue forecasting for Marketplace fees
- Build and maintain in depth knowledge across key business areas by staying current on initiatives, challenges and opportunities across the business.
- The role involves extensive coordination with multiple operations, regional finance, and fee strategy teams, and will support WW marketplaces.
A day in the life
As the Sr Financial Analyst, you will work closely with multiple business teams including fee strategy, fee science, product, econ, and operations, to shape the monetization of our 3P business.
You will be responsible for identifying growth and profit opportunities, and partnering with the business teams to develop fee strategy for a global multi-Billion dollar revenue line.
About the team
The WW Fee Strategy Finance team focuses our effort on high impact analytical problem solving. Because of this unique focus we attract curious self-starters that thrive on developing new ideas.
We have a tight business partnership with the WW Fee Strategy team where working groups organically coalesce to tackle big problems and opportunities.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA, or CPA
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 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)