Business Analyst I, Cross Border Analytics

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, 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 dynamic and organized self-starter to join us as a Business Intelligence Engineer for Amazon Exports.

Amazon's global presence continues to grow quickly – offering millions of products to customers across the world. Our vision is to enable customers from anywhere in the world to purchase any product that we offer globally, through a localized experience at a competitive price and superior delivery experience.

As a Business Analyst you will own our analytical tools, and enhance existing tooling to meet changing business needs. You'll work directly across all teams to provide valuable data-driven insights and recommendations. You will improve reporting and analysis that the business will use to measure all aspects of operational performance and cost, and drive both incremental improvement to existing tools and processes and large scale changes in our tools, user interfaces, processes and overall business organization. You will create standard metrics reporting and deliver on ad hoc requests. You will flex across core operational metrics and consumer behavior metrics – linking the two and bringing proactive points of view to leadership, frequently before being prompted. In addition to leading the design, development, and management of our analytical tools and reporting, we will look to this person to provide thought leadership and business analysis support as needed. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong business acumen, have experience in reporting and analytical infrastructures, strong communication skills, an ability to work effectively with cross functional teams in a fast paced environment and highly ambiguous work space.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:
Improving the design, usability, and perform maintenance of scalable solutions for ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to support analytical and business needs.
Development of queries and visualizations for ad-hoc requests and projects, as well as ongoing reporting. This includes ad hoc and troubleshooting of existing reporting artifacts generated with SQL.
Quickly building a thorough understanding of Amazon tools, synching best practices and leveraging internal processes from other functions.
Working with team leadership to understand customer needs and concerns as well as define solutions.
Translating basic business problem statements into analysis requirements. Work with internal customers to define best output based on expressed stakeholder needs.
Writing queries and having in-depth knowledge of the data available in area of expertise. Pull the data needed with standard query syntax; periodically identify more advanced methods of query optimization. Converting data to make it analysis-ready.
Recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
Monitoring and troubleshooting operational or data issues in the data pipelines.

Basic Qualifications:
- 1+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 1+ years of complex Excel VBA macros writing experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with SQL or ETL

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with Tableau
- Experience using very large datasets

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