Business Intelligence Analyst - Apps and Games Japan

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about leveraging data to deliver actionable insights that impacts the daily business decisions at Amazon? Does the prospect of dealing with complex business and customer modeling with disparate data sets excite you? Do you like getting "scrappy" with data to answer challenging product and customer behavior questions?

The Amazon Digital Apps and Games organization is seeking an outstanding Business Intelligence Analyst to join our country team in Japan. Our organization is responsible for bringing third-party content into the Amazon ecosystem through our digital devices including the Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Alexa, and other stealth initiatives yet to be announced.

Our presence in Japan represents one of the largest international marketplaces for this line of business. Our team is responsible for all in-market activities including Business Development, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations.

Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with different teams, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts (that are typically being defined in real-time), and, above all else, is passionate about data and analytics. In this role you will be expected to work with business leaders to understand the problems they need to solve and design the appropriate solution. You will work closely with our business and finance leaders to leverage your expertise in order to guide our investment strategy in the Japanese marketplace. You will need to partner with engineering teams to collect new data in order to produce 360 degree views of our business, analyze the results, form strategic opinions. Often times, the ideal set of data will not be available and you'll have to think creatively about what is available and what you can do in order to drive results. You will create financial models, author research papers, and publish this work to educate and influence decisions makers.

Responsibilities include:
· Analyze and solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context of the business.
· Educate, inform, and drive business decisions by connecting your analysis through the lens of financial performance
· Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon's data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use.
· Interface with all internal related and ancillary teams to deliver data and analytics as requested.
· Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc financial analysis and pre-built reporting.
· Report results in a manner which is both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant.
· Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for secondary datasets.
· Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.
· Drive operational excellence for data ingestion, transformation and publication to ensure confidence in the metrics we publish.
· Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
· Tune complex query performance using profiling tools and SQL.
· Triage many possible courses of action in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgment.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics or equivalent work experience.
· At least 3+ years of experience in a similar role.
· At least 1+ year of experience specifically working in a Finance, Accounting, Budget, or Investment analysis role.
· Expertise with SQL and ETL processes.
· Bi-lingual Japanese and English (at least one must be fluent).