Description

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Global Financial Services (GFS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority.

We are looking for a Financial Analyst II (individual contributor) to perform business-specific Financial Planning & Analysis activities in support of a partner financial organization. This person will own the Operating Expense (OpEx) and Headcount (HC) planning, forecasting, and reporting processes, serving as the primary finance point of contact for the supported organization.

The successful candidate will analyze workload drivers to assess headcount needs, ensuring staffing plans are aligned with business demand and operational goals. They will be responsible for monitoring and enforcing budget adherence, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to ensure the organization operates within its approved financial plan. This person will build financial and operational reports that influence decision-making and will develop actionable insights that enable leadership to make informed, data-driven decisions.

This person will become the trusted business advisor by sharing findings with business leaders, supporting them by providing data analysis and business insights. They will partner closely with business leaders to translate financial data into clear narratives that drive strategic outcomes, including headcount trade-off discussions, investment prioritization, and cost optimization opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
- OpEx Management: Own the end-to-end operating expense reporting and variance analysis for the supported organization, identifying key drivers of spend and recommending corrective actions.
- Headcount Planning & Analysis: Analyze workload drivers and operational metrics to determine headcount requirements; maintain HC forecasts and track actuals against plan.
- Budget Adherence: Monitor financial performance against the approved budget, flag deviations early, and partner with business leaders to develop mitigation plans.
- Decision Support: Develop and deliver data-driven insights, models, and recommendations that empower senior leadership to make well-informed business decisions.
- Financial Reporting: Build and maintain financial and operational reports, dashboards, and executive-level summaries that clearly communicate performance, trends, and risks.
- Business Partnership: Drive communication at the senior manager level and articulate finance issues to non-Finance partners; serve as a trusted advisor to the supported organization's leadership team.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work effectively with cross-functional teams across Finance, HR, and the business to align on headcount plans, budget targets, and operational priorities.

About the team
Global Finance Solutions (GFS) is Amazon's Finance Center of Excellence, focused on delivering high-quality financial solutions across the company. GFS currently partners with 42+ sub-teams across seven FGBS verticals, supporting over 1,000+ unique deliverables of varied frequency

GFS's vision is to create a globally inclusive Finance Center of Excellence that fosters continuous improvement by building scalable financial processes and intelligent tools to support the strategic decision-making of our partners — while improving controllership and lowering the company's cost structure.