The Profitability and Business Metrics Services (PBMS) Finance team is seeking a dynamic Senior Financial Analyst to help deliver innovative solutions for our WW Stores finance community! This position will help to deliver improved financial reporting, analysis, and profitability insights at an unprecedented scale. This role is one of the best places to learn the WW Stores business and will have a unique view, insight, and exposure globally. The Senior Financial Analyst will be responsible for partnering closely with global customers across multiple finance and operations teams to drive system automation of financial reporting analysis for various business segments including Everyday Essentials, Private Brands, Prime, Sort-Type, and Item Size. They will serve as a financial controller, overseeing inputs, assumptions, and methodologies within reporting tools critical for leadership decision-making. The role involves establishing recurring mechanisms for governance and controllership initiatives, while documenting workflows to ensure transparency in allocation methodology configurations. Additionally, the analyst will collaborate with technical teams to automate data validation processes, participate in slice owner working groups to review and audit allocation methodologies, and influence product roadmaps by identifying and documenting pain-points with supporting data to guide prioritization efforts.
Key job responsibilities
• Partner closely with global customers across multiple finance and operations teams in driving system automation of financial reporting analysis for unique business slices such as Everyday Essentials, Private Brands, Prime, Sort-Type, Item Size, etc.
• Act as a financial controller for the inputs, assumptions, and methodologies used within P&L reporting tools that are critical for leadership and managerial decision making.
• Set-up recurring mechanisms to deliver on governance and controllership initiatives.
• Document workflows to support transparency in allocation methodology configurations.
• Partner with technical teams to automate validations of input and output data.
• Participate in slice owner working group to review allocation methodologies and audit existing slice logic.
• Influence product roadmaps by documenting pain-points and supporting data to set prioritization.
A day in the life
Support ongoing operational processes while also delivering project related tasks. Influence key stakeholders, which include finance, business, and technical teams. An expert in navigating complex formulas, systems, and processes to create meaningful insights to guide our finance customers to more informative answers. Supporting the monthly reporting processes to ensure our users deliver their tasks on time and accurately. Defining, testing, and implementing new features and functionality to improve our customer experience, automate manual processes, and provide increasing value to these functions.
About the team
The Profitability and Business Metrics Services Finance team is part of SPS finance. This team was established to reduce the significant amount of manual effort spent by the finance community and drive centralization and standardization of tools and processes. - 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/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
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