Job Description
Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.
Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA is seeking a Finance Analyst to support our India Business Team.
The Financial Analyst will partner with Amazon Pay India Private Ltd (APIPL) and Amazon Seller Services Private Ltd (ASSPL) along with FOAA Accounting Finance teams (based in India) to support in daily finance operations and payments to customers / sellers for India marketplaces. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced business at Amazon. The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to manage the financial responsibilities of a high-growth business. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and demonstrate strong leadership skills.
The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail, analytical thinking and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities. The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of an extremely dynamic and high-paced environment, support a global organization and work with finance and business teams. The role offers significant opportunities for rapid growth and is a great place to learn about India business operations at Amazon.
• Manage day to day operations of Nodal, Escrow and Payment Aggregator accounts for Amazon Pay and Amazon India Marketplace.
• Perform daily, weekly, monthly operational reconciliations for Payment Aggregator (PA) Escrow and Prepaid Instruments (PPI) Escrow.
• Prepares and reviews complex account reconciliations, financial analyses, and deliverables.
• Work independently to support BAU operations for Amazon India Private Limited and Amazon Seller Services Private Limited businesses.
• Perform daily reconciliation of order wise Sale, Refund transactions along with identification, deep dive, escalation and closure of exceptions by partnering with various world-wide business partners.
• Ensure KPIs are met 100% as per business expectations.
• Design and implement necessary controls to address SOX, operational risk and ensure ongoing testing of these controls.
• Lead internal, external and regulatory audits of these accounts governed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
• Advise business teams in launch of new products and capabilities w.r.t potential impact on these accounts.
• Closely work with accounting and finance teams to ensure accurate representation in entity accounts and ensure timely month end close activities.
• Drive continuous improvement and automations to reduce manual touch points and mitigate business risks.
• The successful candidate will have a strong desire in innovating processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation on behalf of our customers and sellers.
• Coordinate with the multiple internal and external business partners to establish and maintain strong communication channels.
• Provide inputs for weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner. Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time.
• Build and monitor performance metrics, with principal focus on ensuring timely delivery of reports, reconciliations and other deliverables.
Key job responsibilities
• Experience using multiple data-sets to influence business decisions
• CA with 0-4yrs of experience.
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
• Experience in finance operations, analytical reporting and timely resolution of issues
• Good Communication skills
• Good Articulation skills
• Well versed with MS Excel
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Qualified Chartered Accountant
- 0-4years of finance experience
- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Knowledge of Six Sigma defect reduction techniques (Lean, etc.)
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
