Financial Analyst 3
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
AccountingFinancial Accounting, Accounts Payable/Receivable
About the job
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.
- At least 3 years of experience with advanced Excel proficiency, including pivot tables and lookups.
- At least 6 years of Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payable experience.
- At least 6 years of experience applying key financial performance indicators to analyses.
- At least 7 years of experience building financial and operational reports or datasets that inform business decision-making.
- At least 6 years of experience creating process improvements through automation and analysis.
- Qualified Chartered Accountant.
- Strong systems background.
- Ability to analyze complex datasets and provide business judgments.
- Ability to work with remote teams in multiple locations.
Responsibilities
- Ensure accounting processes operate in a controlled environment and meet customer expectations.
- Work with Central Accounting, Finance Operations, and Global Finance teams to maintain controlled month-end accounting and reporting processes.
- Oversee global accounting team operations in Bangalore, including closing global books, posting journal entries, preparing global general ledger account reconciliations, reporting, and conducting reviews with the leadership team.
- Ensure finance processes operate at optimum capacity while partnering with operations and accounting teams to achieve the annual operating plan.
- Develop and maintain financial and operational metrics, analyze and report monthly variance analysis, and provide ad hoc reporting and analysis.
- Establish financial controls by measuring the quality of general ledger account reconciliations and creating dashboards and metrics to measure process and control quality.
- Set hiring and training priorities and ensure existing policies and procedures are followed.
- Own financial reporting and delivery of complete month-end close for Accounts Payable accounting functions, reporting decks, reconciliations, and related work; teach others as needed.
- Provide support and direction for process or problem resolution.
- Ensure processes operate efficiently and effectively.
- Identify and implement process improvements.
- Understand industry best practices and establish quality benchmarks.
- Participate in strategic initiatives and special projects as assigned or required.
- Ensure financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.
- Manage the department’s response to internal and external audit requirements and ensure compliance with SOX requirements across geographies and activities.
- Manage complex accounting issues and implement process controls.
- Build stakeholder relationships, make and keep commitments, partner with customers, and anticipate customer needs.
- Protect the company brand by knowing and living its values.
- Work with cross-functional systems and drive process improvement initiatives.
Desired Qualifications
- At least 6 years of experience participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
- At least 6 years of experience identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, determining root causes, and creating or implementing an escalation plan.
- At least 7 years of experience mentoring junior finance or business team members.
- At least 3 years of experience working with senior staff, such as C-suite leaders.
- Experience with large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as SQL, Microsoft Access, Essbase, or Cognos, and providing recommendations based on ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making.
About the company
Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
1994
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
- Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
- Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
What critics are saying
- AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
- Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
- Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.
What makes Amazon unique
- Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
- Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
- Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.
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