Job summary
Amazon is looking for a smart, motivated, and analytical Credit Specialist to join our credit
team. He or she will have responsibility for providing a thorough credit risk assessment as they
apply for Amazon businesses, including data related assessment of the portfolio risk. This will
involve high judgment and frequent interaction with customers and internal stakeholders to
ensure decisions are sound and well understood. The Credit Analyst will also support the
monitoring and management of the entire accounts receivable portfolio. The successful candidate
will have a good desire in innovating processes, good attention to detail and exceed
expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. The position requires
an individual who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and often
ambiguous environment.
Key job responsibilities
1) Evaluate credit applications – analyzing data from financial statements, credit reference
agencies, application forms and other third party sources to arrive at fast, fair, and appropriate
credit decisions
2) Communicate with customers – requires good Customer Obsession as an Amazon
representative in credit-related communication with Amazon Business customers
3) Improve processes – work with internal teams to understand the systems and variables that
affect credit management decisions, and drive improvements in the logic, tools and processes,
with emphasis on automating tasks that are currently performed manually
4) Monitor credit performance – monitoring of Accounts Receivables with emphasis on financial
transactions such as invoices, credits, debit-notes and cash application
5) Professional traits not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders in this role
include:
6) Exhibits excellent judgment
7) Is passionate about customers
8) Is creative, and data driven
9) Has persistently high standards
10) Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
11) Results oriented
Amazon is looking for a smart, motivated, and analytical Credit Analyst to join our credit team.
He or she will have responsibility for providing a thorough credit risk assessment as they apply
for Amazon businesses, including data related assessment of the portfolio risk. This will involve
high judgment and frequent interaction with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure
decisions are sound and well understood. The Credit Analyst will also support the monitoring
and management of the entire accounts receivable portfolio. The successful candidate will have a
good desire in innovating processes, good attention to detail and exceed expectations in a
dynamic, fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. The position requires an individual who
can work creatively in a fast paced, highly demanding and often ambiguous environment.
Key areas of responsibility include:
1) Evaluate credit applications – analyzing data from financial statements, credit reference
agencies, application forms and other third party sources to arrive at fast, fair, and appropriate
credit decisions
2) Communicate with customers – requires good Customer Obsession as an Amazon
representative in credit-related communication with Amazon Business customers
3) Improve processes – work with internal teams to understand the systems and variables that
affect credit management decisions, and drive improvements in the logic, tools and processes,
with emphasis on automating tasks that are currently performed manually
4) Monitor credit performance – monitoring of Accounts Receivables with emphasis on financial
transactions such as invoices, credits, debit-notes and cash application
5) Professional traits not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders in this role
include:
6) Exhibits excellent judgment
7) Is passionate about customers
8) Is creative, and data driven
9) Has persistently high standards
10) Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
11) Results oriented
- 5+ years of finance experience
- 3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 3+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL