Business Analyst, US 3P SAS Finance - Amazon

Description Amazon seeks an experienced Business Analyst to serve as a lead contributor on the Strategic Account Services (SAS) Finance team supporting the 3P business. The SAS organization strives to improve the Amazon customer experience by working directly with selling partners to enable more selection, reduce defects, and drive growth across their businesses. You will generate insights that will guide operational excellence and product development for our customers. Data analysis is at the core Amazon's culture, and your work will have a direct impact on decision making and strategy for our team. You will be gathering customer insights, mining data, making recommendations, and helping senior leaders make key business decisions. You will have the opportunity to work with a large and complex data warehouse to gather insights using data from across Amazon. These efforts will improve the ways in which we service our sellers and improve the business performance for SAS. The Business Analyst will also focus on streamlining finance reports, owning shadow P&Ls queries and perform ad-hoc business decision support analysis. We are looking for someone with a broad technical background in data analytics, strong business acumen, who takes ownership of their work, and is focused on customer needs. The successful candidate will communicate crisply in non-technical terms to senior management. They will have an ability to make data-driven conclusions and will be comfortable with ambiguity while working in a fast-paced dynamic environment. The candidate will also need to be a collaborator who can work with internal and external teams to define and implement solutions that will yield benefits to Amazon customers around the world. Key job responsibilities - Build reports and analysis utilizing advanced SQL skills. - Automate planning, and reporting models. - Understand the business challenges and identify data-driven business insights with effective presentation of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders - Leverage data to increase the efficiency of our programs working closely with the business teams to drive optimization - Update existing and create new metrics and reporting that help drive business conclusions, continually improving reporting and analysis processes - Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards to help determine key business conclusions About the team The Strategic Account Services (SAS) organization strives to improve the Amazon customer experience by working directly with Selling Partners to enable more selection, reduce defects, and drive growth across their businesses. The primary driver is Gross Merchandise Sales (GMS) and Free Cash Flow (FCF) from our paid services. SAS invents and innovates across technology, processes and people to enhance the services we offer, improve Selling Partner engagement and satisfaction, and build scalable solutions. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent - 3+ years of business or financial analysis experience Preferred Qualifications - 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience - Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights - Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau - 3+ years of experience writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $59,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.