Senior Business Analyst, Global Data Analytics (GDA), Finance Operations

The Senior Business Analyst will join the high-visibility, growth-oriented Finance Operations, Global Data & Analytics (GDA) team. This role requires an analytical leader who can influence stakeholders through data-driven insights, build scalable reporting solutions, and develop innovative analytics to support strategic decision-making.
The position will design and deliver analytical solutions that enable one of the world’s largest Accounts Payable organizations to operate efficiently at scale and proactively identify and resolve process defects.
This role requires comfort with ambiguity and the ability to rapidly develop deep expertise in Amazon’s Order to Cash and Procure to Pay processes, along with their associated data ecosystems. The Senior Business Analyst will serve as a trusted analytics partner to over 1,200 stakeholders across Finance Operations Headquarters and global Service Centers.
Key job responsibilities
Partner with Accounts Payable leaders across Service Centers and Headquarters to identify, prioritize, and execute analytical initiatives that reduce transactional defects, optimize work drivers, measure goal performance, and assess new business expansion health.
Perform advanced analytics and financial modeling to support business prioritization, anomaly detection, and process improvement initiatives.
Leverage QuickSight and SQL to design scalable reporting solutions and deliver actionable insights that drive operational efficiency.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define, document, and govern standardized metric definitions across teams.
Contribute to cross-functional knowledge sharing and analytics best practices.
Develop ad hoc analyses and scalable reporting to support evolving business needs.
A day in the life
The Business Analyst will be in charge of building high-performing analytics products relying on SQL, Excel and Tableau / QuickSight. The role will business partner across global Finance Operations to become an expert in core business processes, and will work backwards to enhance metric governance, identify and action analytical opportunities, and leverage data to build compelling business cases that influence our operations. SQL skills (Intermediate / Expert level) is a must to deliver on Job 1 in this role.
About the team
Global Data Analytics (GDA) is in charge of all the Finance Operations reporting across Amazon's businesses and geographies. GDA's mission is to be trusted and business-focused analytics partners, providing timely data, analytics, and insights across Service Centers (SCs) and global functions. We are custodians of data and metrics definitions. We apply science methods to large-scale transactional processes. Our vision is to empower the world’s largest Accounts Receivable (AR) and Payable (AP) departments to deliver large scale business outcomes through advanced data capabilities and real time, actionable insights.
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- 3+ years of writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI experience
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Experience with Excel
- MBA
- Experience in using AI prompts and creating low code solutions
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