IT Applications Analyst, Stores FinTech ID-13364

April 30, 2025

Description

How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge customer need through disruptive and innovative technology?

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.

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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)
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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