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 Science and Analytics team, responsible for driving analysis and insights to help make meaningful business decisions. As a 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 self-service solutions that empower stakeholders to access and analyze data independently.

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

• 5+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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

• 3+ years of business analyst, data analyst or similar role experience

• Experience with reporting and Data Visualization tools such as Quick Sight / Tableau / Power BI or other BI packages

• 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

• Project management and execution under hard deadlines

• Proven problem solving skills with regard to unstructured, uncertain problems

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143,100/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.