Amazon
Senior Business Analyst, RISC GDA
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Description
At Amazon, our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company and to create a safe environment for both our customers and our associates. To achieve that, we need exceptionally talented, bright, dynamic, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. We are looking for a talented business analyst to join the Regulatory Intelligence, Safety & Compliance [RISC] Global Data & Analytics [GDA] team.
This role will be a key member of the Analytics team, responsible for driving proactive and reactive analysis and insights to help make meaningful business decisions. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will focus on improving the success within business functions by analyzing data, discovering and solving real world problems, building metrics and business cases to improve customer experience, and providing timely data support for escalations to mitigate risk. We are focused on your success and want to build future leaders within Amazon. A key component of the role is to identify process and system improvement opportunities by developing the right metrics, analyzing data, and partnering with internal teams. In addition, you will design and develop automated reporting solutions to enable stakeholders to manage the business and make effective decisions. Lastly, you will enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
This role requires an individual with excellent statistical and analytical abilities, deep knowledge of business intelligence solutions and outstanding business acumen. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and driven by a desire to innovate in this space.
Key job responsibilities
Creating automated reports and dashboards with a combination of BI tools such as Tableau, Quicksight etc.
Partnering with Program team, Legal, and Tech stakeholders to understand challenges and provide /analysis to help drive program success
Providing data support for business and cross-functional partners to address escalations and answer questions using PostgreSQL and AWS solutions
Uncovering trends and correlations through mining and analysis to develop insights that can help stakeholders to make effective decisions
Designing and executing analytical projects using statistical analysis
Build and grow adoption of self-service solutions that empower stakeholders to access and analyze data independently.
Forming a strong network of senior leaders across the business to understand the needs and vision to Think Big with wider solutions and goals.
Contribute to team planning and goals by setting out an inspiring vision for analytics and the solutions we produce
About the team
Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 10,000+ employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our DEI Ambassador Program. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
6+ years of business or financial analysis, product costing, procurement, or a quantitative role experience
5+ years of writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI experience
Experience with Excel
Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to interpret large amounts of data and make sound business judgments and recommendations
Preferred Qualifications
MBA
Experience with QuickSight dashboard and visual creation
Experience using very large datasets
Ability to use scripting languages such as Python or R to evaluate data
Experience with AWS services including S3, Redshift, EMR and Apache Spark
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.
At Amazon, our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company and to create a safe environment for both our customers and our associates. To achieve that, we need exceptionally talented, bright, dynamic, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. We are looking for a talented business analyst to join the Regulatory Intelligence, Safety & Compliance [RISC] Global Data & Analytics [GDA] team.
This role will be a key member of the Analytics team, responsible for driving proactive and reactive analysis and insights to help make meaningful business decisions. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will focus on improving the success within business functions by analyzing data, discovering and solving real world problems, building metrics and business cases to improve customer experience, and providing timely data support for escalations to mitigate risk. We are focused on your success and want to build future leaders within Amazon. A key component of the role is to identify process and system improvement opportunities by developing the right metrics, analyzing data, and partnering with internal teams. In addition, you will design and develop automated reporting solutions to enable stakeholders to manage the business and make effective decisions. Lastly, you will enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
This role requires an individual with excellent statistical and analytical abilities, deep knowledge of business intelligence solutions and outstanding business acumen. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and driven by a desire to innovate in this space.
Key job responsibilities
Creating automated reports and dashboards with a combination of BI tools such as Tableau, Quicksight etc.
Partnering with Program team, Legal, and Tech stakeholders to understand challenges and provide /analysis to help drive program success
Providing data support for business and cross-functional partners to address escalations and answer questions using PostgreSQL and AWS solutions
Uncovering trends and correlations through mining and analysis to develop insights that can help stakeholders to make effective decisions
Designing and executing analytical projects using statistical analysis
Build and grow adoption of self-service solutions that empower stakeholders to access and analyze data independently.
Forming a strong network of senior leaders across the business to understand the needs and vision to Think Big with wider solutions and goals.
Contribute to team planning and goals by setting out an inspiring vision for analytics and the solutions we produce
About the team
Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 10,000+ employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our DEI Ambassador Program. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
6+ years of business or financial analysis, product costing, procurement, or a quantitative role experience
5+ years of writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI experience
Experience with Excel
Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to interpret large amounts of data and make sound business judgments and recommendations
Preferred Qualifications
MBA
Experience with QuickSight dashboard and visual creation
Experience using very large datasets
Ability to use scripting languages such as Python or R to evaluate data
Experience with AWS services including S3, Redshift, EMR and Apache Spark
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.