Financial Analyst III - AMZ9970961

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Financial Analyst III Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9970961 Position Responsibilities: Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management. Prepare various deliverables to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals. Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes, reporting and controls, and drive positive change across the organization. Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate the application of GAAP to peers and business partners. Participate in writing white papers to support a given accounting position. Provide management and direction to junior analysts, including overseeing and reviewing reporting and Excel spreadsheet work papers. Document processes. Assess internal controls, identify gaps in the control process, and design additional controls to solve deficiencies. Oversee the monthly close process working closely with finance team to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management. Act independently to complete multiple cross-functional projects with complex objectives. Create and maintain reports. Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports. Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial and other data, including software spend, consulting spend, capital expenditures, compensation operational expense, and corporate allocated expense, to support financial planning and operating expense management. Use Excel, TM1, QuickSuite, relationship building, document writing, and internal tools to evaluate forecast vs. actuals, changes over time and scenarios, cost per security activity, and savings per security activity to develop month end close variance commentary, and Budget, Plans, and Savings models. Prepare various deliverables, including month end close commentary, Operational Plans, Savings Models, and Monthly Financial Reviews, to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals. Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes, reporting and controls, and drive positive change across the organization. Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate the application of GAAP to peers and business partners. Participate in writing white papers to support a given accounting position. Provide management and direction to junior analysts, including overseeing and reviewing reporting and Excel spreadsheet work papers. Document processes. Assess internal controls, identify gaps in the control process, and design additional controls to solve deficiencies. Oversee the monthly close process working closely with finance team to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management. Act independently to complete multiple cross-functional projects with complex objectives, including to build and maintain savings model across multiple security, customer support, and finance teams and regular reviews integrating financial results with hiring plans and HR insights in order to align funding decisions across security leaders and regular financial reporting. Create and maintain reports. Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range: $141,066/year to $179,500/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package,