Senior Financial Analyst , UK Customer Fulfilment Finance

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for Senior Financial Analyst that is excited to join a tech company that is constantly improving and reimagining the logistics industry. Our candidate should be passionate about using data to solve big, complex and ambiguous problems. The ideal candidate should be eager to continuously learn and improve their skills. You should be attentive to which details make all the difference. Do you want to contribute shaping the new standard of shopping? If so, come and join the Customer Fulfillment Finance Team.

As part of the Customer Fulfillment Finance team, you will join a team that is passionate about numbers, data, and how to use them to generate insights and improve our business. We support and influence the organization by providing a holistic and financial perspective, we are the trusted business advisors. We collaborate with our partners to ensure leaders have the most up to date and reliable information, and work with them to make sure we are making the best possible decisions.

Learning opportunities:

Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the operations of the business

Learn from inspiring and diverse team

Growth in a fast-pace environment where every day is day one;

Learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds;

Ability to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral, geographical or functional moves.

Key job responsibilities

Independently identifies and drives cost-out opportunities across multiple Fulfillment nodes by connecting operational performance metrics to financial outcomes - defining the analytical framework where one may not exist

Navigates complex, ambiguous cost structures with limited or incomplete data - exercising senior judgement to size opportunities, quantify trade-offs, and recommend action to leadership with confidence.

Leads root cause analysis on systemic issues spanning multiple sites or programmes, uncovering underlying drivers and designing scalable measurement frameworks that raise the bar on site productivity.

Serves as a trusted strategic partner to senior operational leaders - proactively influencing decisions on investment, capacity, and cost strategy rather than responding to requests

Owns the end-to-end relationship with data source providers and technology teams - driving automation roadmaps, defining data quality standards, and ensuring decision-grade data is available at pace

Identifies and champions process improvements across the wider finance organisation - codifying best practices, raising the analytical standard for peers and junior analysts

A day in the life

You will mainly focus on performance metrics of Amazon fulfillment centers in the EU. You will own daily, weekly & monthly reporting, you will be involved in productivity reviews, you will travel across Continental Europe to visit other similar Amazon sites to understand differences and based on data analysis and your gained knowledge you will steer the Senior Leadership the right direction.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree

Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles, or experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects

Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MS Power Query, Python), or experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)

Experience with financial analysis and modeling

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field

Experience identifying and resolving complex issues

Experience in a fast paced, dynamic organization

Experience developing customer relationships and influencing key decision-makers

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