Defect & Risk Analyst

Do you want to be instrumental in the success of some of Amazon's most strategic and highly impactful projects Amazon's Finance Operations Payroll team has an immediate opening for a seasoned Operational Excellence whose experience illustrates a clear ability to support implementation of global process improvement along with technologies and services to meet long term business needs.

The OE role is self-driven, and goal oriented with a focus in delivering a business solution that meets the customers need. We are a fun and diverse team with members in several different countries. This is a mix of quantitative and leadership skills to identify process improvement & technology related opportunities and bring them to logical closure by applying stable and scalable solutions.

The OE Analyst will be co-leading the global programs/ projects and has to drive the culture of self-inspection and continuous improvement where acting on fact and eliminating defects and waste is the norm.

Key job responsibilities

Key Elements Of Driving Global Program Are

• Global program communication with stakeholders across verticals
• Strong Stakeholder Management skill.
• Writing whitepapers for MBR or ad-hoc connects.
• Preparing and leading program's workshops/ FMEA sessions
• Performing Data Analysis to get to the actionable root causes
• Liaising with respective stakeholders to get the buy-in.
• Identifying opportunities for automating process steps and other process improvement
• Risk and Control Assessment
• New/ improved control deployment
• Preparing and publishing program dashboards on regular basis
• Analyzing numbers on the dashboards and come up with some logical recommendations
• Following up to get the actions completed
• Performing internal audits to gauge the effectiveness
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Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of finance experience
• 2+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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