Finance Analyst, Veeqo
- Recruiter
- Amazon UK
- Location
- London, Greater London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 01 Jul 2022
- Closes
- 20 Jul 2022
- Ref
- 2041485
- Approved employers
- Approved employer
- Job role
- Financial analyst, Forensic accountant
- Sector
- Digital, Retail and FMCG
Description:
Job summary
The Veeqo Finance team is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Finance Analyst II to join its finance function in Swansea or London, UK. The successful candidate will be ultimately responsible for workstreams across finance, covering forecasting and long term strategy across all teams. This role holder will contribute to, and challenge financial decisions, spot trends, anomalies or deviations, and introduce strategies for improvement. Partnering closely with a broad range of global business and finance leaders, designing, developing, and maintaining performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.
We would like you to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to help ensure the finance team is well informed and has a strong voice within the organization. With a range of stakeholder teams, you'll need the ability to be forward looking and think through all possible scenarios, then summarize this to tangible information on key metrics. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data and analytics tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that impact company-wide strategic decisions.
Our Ways of Working
As a transparent, high trust business we value low ego, get it done type humans, who enjoy working in a collaborative and supportive environment. From grand ideas to hands on implementation, you will be exposed to a huge variety of projects and will bring passion to the task however big or small. We are a friendly, helpful bunch who work very hard but value healthy balance, family, friends and all the good stuff that makes us smile!
Key job responsibilities
• Manage the regular cyclical budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes, including production of the five-year financial business plan and contribute to overall financial strategy.
• Create and develop ad hoc financial models and analysis to assist and support strategic initiatives and business cases, and drive decision making.
• Collaborate with key business leaders to provide analytical rigor and financially evaluate strategic initiatives.
• Work alongside the leadership team to establish a strategic roadmap and growth targets for multiple teams and geographies.
• Be the lead for the FP&A function for the business, delivering planning and analysis capability that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of our products and services.
About the team
At Veeqo, we want to make it easier for Sellers to ship their orders, from any channel. We're looking for a Finance Analyst II to join the finance function and support the team in scaling the business for the years to come.
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
Job summary
The Veeqo Finance team is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Finance Analyst II to join its finance function in Swansea or London, UK. The successful candidate will be ultimately responsible for workstreams across finance, covering forecasting and long term strategy across all teams. This role holder will contribute to, and challenge financial decisions, spot trends, anomalies or deviations, and introduce strategies for improvement. Partnering closely with a broad range of global business and finance leaders, designing, developing, and maintaining performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.
We would like you to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to help ensure the finance team is well informed and has a strong voice within the organization. With a range of stakeholder teams, you'll need the ability to be forward looking and think through all possible scenarios, then summarize this to tangible information on key metrics. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data and analytics tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that impact company-wide strategic decisions.
Our Ways of Working
As a transparent, high trust business we value low ego, get it done type humans, who enjoy working in a collaborative and supportive environment. From grand ideas to hands on implementation, you will be exposed to a huge variety of projects and will bring passion to the task however big or small. We are a friendly, helpful bunch who work very hard but value healthy balance, family, friends and all the good stuff that makes us smile!
Key job responsibilities
• Manage the regular cyclical budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes, including production of the five-year financial business plan and contribute to overall financial strategy.
• Create and develop ad hoc financial models and analysis to assist and support strategic initiatives and business cases, and drive decision making.
• Collaborate with key business leaders to provide analytical rigor and financially evaluate strategic initiatives.
• Work alongside the leadership team to establish a strategic roadmap and growth targets for multiple teams and geographies.
• Be the lead for the FP&A function for the business, delivering planning and analysis capability that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of our products and services.
About the team
At Veeqo, we want to make it easier for Sellers to ship their orders, from any channel. We're looking for a Finance Analyst II to join the finance function and support the team in scaling the business for the years to come.
Basic Qualifications:
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) or equivalent.
- Finance experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards)
- MBA and/or Professional certification (CPA/CMA/Chartered/Qualified Accounting certificate)
- Ability to multi-task and work in ambiguous
- Knowledge of e-commerce business
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.