Business Analyst - Selling Partner Services Financial Planning & Analysis

Role Overview

The WW Selling Partner Services Central FP&A team is looking for a Business Analyst to lead diverse functions, drive innovation, and elevate the financial planning discipline. This role involves managing budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for 45,000+ employees with operating expenses near $2B annually. The position also supports the IMR Program Lead for SPS Tech Infrastructure OpEx and champions automation and AI-based tooling advancements to boost financial controllership and efficiency.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Influence enterprise-wide by developing scalable AI-driven financial tools to enhance visibility and control.
• Work directly with senior leadership, providing insights that shape strategic finance decisions.
• Lead technological transformation in employing AI and automation in FP&A processes.
• Establish strategic partnerships to create advanced scalable data solutions connecting operational metrics with business outcomes.
• Grow professionally in a fast-paced, evolving environment that emphasizes continuous learning and impact.
• Design automated systems that improve decision-making across Amazon’s global operations.
• Opportunity to innovate and lead significant FP&A initiatives for one of Amazon’s largest business segments.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of AI and machine learning by scoping, piloting, and scaling AI capabilities in daily FP&A workflows.
• Develop AI-enhanced automation tools for recurring financial processes such as IMR reporting, headcount and operating expense monthly reports, and variance analyses.
• Program in Python and Vibe coding to create and refine data pipelines, dashboards, and analytical tools covering headcount, operating expenses, and IMR spending.
• Craft engaging visualizations and structured reporting frameworks for communicating forecasts, expense analyses, and investment insights to leadership.
• Build and maintain automated data reporting infrastructure serving worldwide Selling Partner Services leadership.
• Collaborate with multiple teams including Customer Partner & Trust, Selling Partner Experience, Infrastructure, and Fulfillment by Amazon to drive data insights.
• Partner with the IMR Program Lead to develop scalable tooling supporting monthly and quarterly financial processes.
• Lead continuous improvement projects targeting process simplification, automation, and measurable impact enhancements.

Team Insight

This Central FP&A team focuses on SPS operating expenses globally, providing strategic analysis, planning, and reporting to senior leadership. The group aims to be a finance community role model by balancing hard work, enjoyment, and making historic impacts.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, or related quantitative disciplines.
• At least 3 years of experience in business analysis, data analysis, or a similar role.
• Proven ability to define requirements and employ data metrics to extract business insights.
• Minimum of 3 years’ proficiency with Excel advanced features (VBA, pivot tables, advanced functions) and data visualization platforms like Tableau.
• Demonstrated experience performing business or financial analysis.
• Ability to influence business decisions through data-driven recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years in business or data analysis roles.
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial data results.

Additional Information

Amazon fosters an inclusive work culture that supports all employees and complies with equal opportunity legislation. Accommodations are available during recruiting and onboarding for applicants with disabilities.

The role is available for locations in New York City and Seattle.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary ranges for this role are approximately $81,700 to $143,100 annually in New York and $82,700 to $130,100 annually in Seattle. Total rewards include sign-on bonuses, RSUs, comprehensive health benefits, 401(k) matching, paid leave, and family support programs.