Business Analyst, Financial Risk Mitigation

Amazon has hundreds of millions of customers, sellers, and developers all over the world that rely on Amazon products and services. Selling Partner Services (SPS) is the organization that constantly makes high judgment decisions across a wide breadth of constituents. Preserving Trust in Amazon with every customer, every transaction, every second is our mission. We do this by identifying and removing bad actors from the platform, while supporting a best-in-class customer experience. We ensure that Amazon is a safe and trustworthy place to shop and an amazing place to build a successful business selling products.

Do you want to be at the forefront of engineering machine learning and big data solutions that revolutionize financial risk mitigation models? Do you have a solid analytical mindset, make data-driven decisions, and want to solve problems with solutions that meet the growing global demand for secure financial instruments? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing large amounts of data to solve real-world problems? Do you like to innovate and simplify? We are looking for top-notch and experienced Business Analyst to join our team. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as business acumen and comfort with teams and systems. The ideal candidate will draw upon advanced analytical, problem solving skills, and passion for delivering business insights and analytics. We look for candidates who are excellent communicators, self-motivated, flexible, hardworking, and who like to have fun. This role will have high level visibility due to the nature of the toolsets being maintained, built, and the network impact of analysis conducted.

Key job responsibilities
- Report key insight trends, using statistical rigor to simplify and inform the larger team of noteworthy story lines.
- Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present written business recommendations that will help shape the direction of the business.
- Create models that optimize the resources, inputs & outputs of risk operations business.
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.
- Ensure data accuracy by validating data for new and existing tools. Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon's data resources and know how, when, and which to use and which not to use.

About the team
Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience
- 3+ years of business or financial analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with Excel
- Experience with SQL
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in business or analytical discipline

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 130,100.00 USD annually