Amazon Freight Europe is seeking a highly analytical and commercially minded Commercial Senior Finance Analyst to join our Finance Strategy & Business Partnering team as we scale our external freight business. Amazon Freight is in an exciting growth phase, delivering full truckload and palletised freight across the UK and EU using Amazon’s proprietary network. In this high‑impact role, you’ll serve as the strategic finance partner to our Sales, Operations, and Product teams, owning long‑term planning, driving profitability, and accelerating customer growth. Your insights will directly shape senior leadership decisions as we build a sustainable, rapidly scaling business.
The ideal candidate combines commercial acumen with operational curiosity, can quickly master our end‑to‑end business model, and confidently challenge senior leaders with data‑driven insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with and influence senior stakeholders to drive tactical and strategic decisions across the business.
- Trusted Advisor: Build strong relationships with leaders in Operations and Sales, becoming their go‑to finance partner.
- Constructive Challenge: Demonstrate backbone, hold senior leaders accountable, and ensure we prioritise long‑term value creation over short‑term gains.
- Insight Generation: Deliver actionable insights on operations, market segments, products, and pricing, always asking “why” to uncover root causes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or Master’s degree.
- Experience delivering results for large, cross‑functional initiatives/projects, or experience in multiple finance and accounting roles.
- Experience working with large‑scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Power Query, Python) or experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups).
- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field.
- Experience identifying and resolving complex issues.
- Experience in a fast‑paced, dynamic organization.
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
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