Investment Associate Jobs in Irving, TX

Do you want to leverage strong technical skills, financial acumen, and critical thinking on the growth of Amazon's operations network?

Part of Amazon Logistics, the Rural Super Rural (RSR) network is transforming delivery services in the rural United States. Our operations and support teams work together to innovate the final stage of package delivery—from local distribution points to customers’ doors. Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while building a portfolio of delivery stations, vans, and technology to deliver customers' packages on time - often next day, sometimes faster. You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet.

Amazon Last Mile Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Last Mile Investment Analytics team, partnering directly with our business and finance partners to own NA RSR Investment Analytics where you will influence decision-making within the org. You will have extensive cross-functional partnership opportunities with business and finance leaders across multiple disciplines including Real Estate, Long Range Planning, Topology, Construction, Startup and Launch teams to solve high visibility, high impact, unstructured problems as we expand and optimize our RSR delivery network. Your ability to deliver meaningful financial analysis through ambiguous situations and operate with a high degree of critical thinking will allow you to operate as the primary Finance stakeholder in the decision-making of growing our RSR network.

Success in this role requires you to partner with and influence business owners, respectively audit and challenge business model assumptions, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. You will own the financial analysis behind the capital spend decisions RSR will make, and hold yourself and partners accountable for ensuring those data-driven decisions are best for Amazon. You will collaborate with all types of stakeholders, from other finance leaders, to functional leaders, to executives, across multiple business units within Amazon. You bring best-in-class business partnership, critical thinking, and high judgement not only in the execution of your work but also while advocating strong controllership within your team and across stakeholders. You are comfortable asking thoughtful questions, communicating insights, and presenting your analysis to business leaders during reviews. You're a team player who thinks 2 steps ahead, prioritizes building analysis the "right" way, and appreciates process as much as execution.

This role directly impacts the decision on billions of dollars of investments in Amazon Last Mile infrastructure. A successful candidate effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful recommendations leveraging high degrees of financial knowledge and critical thinking, and manages competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. The candidate should demonstrate amazing analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguity and strong analytical and verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with worldwide operations leadership is common.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and build processes that improve the level of accuracy, automation, and scalability of financial analysis
• Own a subset of financial analyses from ideation through execution that balances speed of execution with accuracy to deliver the highest degree of value to Amazon
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communication drives critical business decisions
• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team
• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer across team members as an indicator of operations excellence