Sr. Finops Analyst - AP, Whole Foods Market

Financial Analyst Position

Amazon is looking for driven Financial Analysts to become major contributors to the fast-paced world of Global Accounts Payable. We'll give you the opportunity to really make a difference in a high-growth environment where your ability to identify, communicate, and drive changes will be key. You will own and manage direct relationships with our top vendors and coordinate problem-solving activities with them to ensure the best vendor experience and smooth flow of all business processes.

We're looking for people with outstanding communication and analytical skills as well as a passion for process improvement and problem-solving. If you are motivated to dive into the detail, take ownership, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment, we have the career you're looking for!

Key job responsibilities:

• Identifying root causes for problems within the supply chain or in internal Amazon systems and leading the initiative of fixing these problems - conduct follow-up tasks, communicate opportunities for improvement, and agree on action plans.
• Analyze key supplier trends, govern mediation requirements based on analyzed trends.
• Acting as a main point of contact for top Amazon suppliers, with the goal to develop strong business relationships, create mutual trust, and resolve any conflicts to avoid shipment holds or other business interruptions.
• Prepare vendor health scorecard Conducting reviews and identifying vendor accounts that are likely to become a delivery hold situation and proactively working on their account balances.
• Addressing any account-related inquiries and concerns from vendors and ensuring vendors know to use the Amazon tools.

Other requirements:

• Analyzing metrics relating to operational performance and effectively presenting data to vendors and internal teams.
• Working actively and accurately on an independent basis; giving great attention to detail and displaying the initiative to quickly identify and resolve variances, failures, and discrepancies.
• Interacting with Retail & Finance teams while working on the same vendor account and agreeing on priorities, business decisions, objectives, and communication.
• Duties include, but are not limited to: Invoice processing in the Accounting Platform - Maintain accuracy levels of above 98%. Able to meet the productivity target set. Vendor statement preparation - Credits and returns research - Payment holds research processing & - Quality check for invoices matched.