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2025 Finance Placement Year
at Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) London in London (Published at 06-11-2024)
- Are enrolled in or have completed a Bachelor's degree
Are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? At Amazon, we move with purpose and speed, and this requires us to work with a dynamic network of retail, HR, marketing, tech and operations partners. We help others understand finance and are trusted business advisors. We employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have the most up to date and reliable information to help them make the best possible decision.
The Amazon University Talent Acquisition Team are looking for finance Interns to work alongside, and support managers gaining a deep insight into the financial systems, processes, and controls used to record Amazon’s growing volume of daily, weekly, and monthly transactions.
You will learn how finance supports the various business teams in forecasting and analyzing actual financial results, managing the external reporting of Amazon’s quarterly financial statements and inputting to the launch of new customer-focused initiatives to ensure customers can find and discover anything and everything they want online.
As part of our commitment to your development, during your 12-month placement you will complete two six month rotations and gain exposure to areas within our finance department, these may include accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, taxation, and commercial finance. These teams are responsible for the following:
Accounting:
- Monthly internal financial results close process
- Quarterly consolidated financial reports released to public
- Annual certification of effectiveness of financial reporting controls and statutory financial statements
- External relationship management with vendors and customers
- Internal relationship management with vendor managers and other finance teams
- Financial and commercial risk management including bad debt risk and vendor shipment holds
- Partner with shared service centers in India and Slovakia
- Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts
- Modeling expected impact of new initiatives and businesses
- Analyzing variations against expected results
- Supporting finance and business teams with insights on key input and output performance indicators.
- Analysis of tax legislation and application to Amazon’s facts and filing requirements
- Preparation and submission of VAT filings
- Ad hoc tax questions from the businesses and support of business launches and projects.
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Key job responsibilities
- Collecting, analyzing, and reviewing quantitative data and creating meaningful reports to drive business improvement and cost reductions
- Root cause analysis and uncovering core issues using data
- Assist with development, and implementation of policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability
- Assist in the development of all weekly and monthly financial close, all planning, forecasting, and reporting models and their continuous innovation and improving the use and ease of interpretation by your business partners
- Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate, automated, and timely
Competitive pay
Impactful project and internship/role deliverables
Networking opportunities with fellow interns
Internships events such as speaker series, intern panels, Leadership Principles sessions, Amazon writing skills sessions.
Mentorship and career development
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations.
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