Amazon Business Analyst II Planning Operations Shopbop 

United States, Wisconsin, Madison 

770575619

The person in this role will be responsible for exposing and correcting failure points within our current systems, diving deep to explain outliers, and generating new auditing and reporting mechanisms. This role will partner with Finance and Accounting to support controllership and to trace discrepancies and transactions through multiple systems, data sources, and teams. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities. The ideal candidate demonstrates ownership and sound judgment in decisions that have financial, business, operational, or customer implications, which leads the team to take smart risks and innovate. This individual must be an exceptional communicator who works to understand (in some cases challenge) and meet requirements of multiple teams. The responsibilities and qualifications listed below are further representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.Key job responsibilities
- Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative operational, financial, and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management
- Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes and reporting, design additional controls to solve deficiencies, and drive positive change across the organization
- Systematically identify failure points and follow through on resolutions to ensure compliance- Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports
- Design, develop, and establish metrics to provide strategic insights
- Pull and report data from numerous databases (using Excel, SQL, and/or other data management systems) for weekly reporting and ad hoc deep dives with research and problem-solving techniques
- Partner across Accounting, Finance, Transportation and Technology to drive resolution- Communicate complex insights to stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau
- Experience with SQL
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Strong written and verbal communication