Amazon Stores FinTech Team is seeking a IT Application Analyst to help optimize the TM1/Planning Analytics solutions in Financial Planning & Reporting space for its Finance business partners and customers. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with customers, looks forward to rub elbows with our finance, product, program, engineering business partners, and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business problems that are typically being defined in real-time.
Key job responsibilities
* Collaborate with finance, product, program and engineering business partners to scope detailed business requirements for TM1/Planning Analytics solutions to optimize finance organizations reporting and planning processes
* Collaborate with our business partners on researching and analyzing pain points with current applications and document for reference
* Daily tasks require working with customers and developers on technical operations. Longer term tasks will include research, planning and design discussions with our internal customers.
* This role also requires troubleshooting and support for customers for launched TM1/Planning Analytics solutions.
* You participate in the hands on design and development of technology solutions. You bring data to the table that can help improve or reinvent the business process.
* You anticipate bottlenecks, manage competing priorities, evaluate and make tradeoff decisions, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and maximize business benefit.
* In this role, operational excellence is a key priority. You track down the true root cause of issues and take action to correct the errors. You have a constant eye for improvement.
* You focus heavily on cross-functional communication to ensure key decisions, risks, issues, and solution status are made clear to all.
* You will assess the feasibility of syncing TM1/Planning Applications with external data sources through innovative design where applicable
* You are prompt, professional, articulate, and persistent in your interactions with customers and our partners.
Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field
* 3+ years of relevant system support experience exhibiting knowledge of financial systems, planning, budgeting and forecasting functions and related processes
* 3+ years experience with IBM Cognos Planning Analytics (TM1) or equivalent tools/systems
* 3+ years experience working with cross-functional engagements, problem solving, business partnering skills, attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills
* Ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams, and excellent and interpersonal skills
* Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues and co-ordinate with product managers and engineering teams for short term and long term solutions
Preferred Qualifications
* Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field* Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel
* Proficiency in SQL, NoSQL, general DW concepts
* Understanding of data warehousing and data modeling
* Experience with Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) databases - Redshift, Teradata etc
* Ability to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives in a fast paced environment
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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $84,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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