Amazon Hiring for Business Analyst at Bengaluru / Bangalore Full Time

Job Description :
Job summary
Excited to make data based recommendations for a growing business Join us as a Business Analyst to deliver analytics and insights for Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team.

Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team started operations in March 2009 and has grown steadily in scope ever since. This is a global program supporting worldwide Amazon marketplaces. Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems group focuses on making direct impact on Selection for Amazon’s Retail & 3rd party marketplace business. The Selection Monitoring team within this group owns end to end processes for discovering, prioritizing and adding new selection (products) for customers across different markets worldwide. This drives one of Amazon’s core focus areas: providing the widest selection to customers. We operate in a fast paced, rapidly growing environment offering new challenges and opportunities for making impactful changes in the Amazon ecosystem.

About the Role
Business Analyst
Within the Selection Monitoring team, Business analyst is expected to own analytics on large volumes of data, synthesizing the analysis into business insights, communicating the findings to stakeholders and and deliver business value. Business analyst will be expected to be skilled in understanding customer needs, converting them to analysis requirements, having working knowledge of data availability in various sources, building customer confidence through effective communication and derive recommendations. Business analyst would also be responsible for the project plan, cost and efficiency analytics platform resources, scaling of data processes and reports, and project timeline and deliverables.
Key Performance Areas:

• Solve ambiguous problems with less well-defined inputs and outputs drive to the heart of the problem and identify root causes
• Identify, develop and execute data analysis to uncover areas of business opportunities
• Learn and understand the broad range of Amazon’s data resources and develop knowledge of how, when and which data sources to use
• Deep dive into massive data sets to answer key business questions using SQL, MS Excel and other data manipulation languages
• Build new reports/dashboards to enable emerging business use cases
• Partner with Data Engineering team to deploy new data technology
• Present written recommendations and insights to key stakeholders that will help shape effective selection expansion strategies worldwide
• Manage and execute entire projects or components of large projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and manipulation, modeling and problem solving

A day in the life

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Job responsibilities

Basic Qualifications :

• 3+ years relevant experience in financial/business analysis
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
• Experience with SQL
• Experience in Excel

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or similar quantitative discipline
• 4-7 years of experience in hands-on analytics: building data pipelines using SQL, reports in Excel, dashboards in tools like QuickSight
• Analytical skills – ability to start from ambiguous problem statements, identify and access relevant data, make appropriate assumptions, perform insightful analysis and draw conclusion relevant to the business problem. Provide insights through basic statistical measures such as hypothesis testing and test and control methods
• Data Management skills – ability to work with a variety of data sources and pull data using efficient query development that requires less post processing
• Communication skills – ability to communicate (written and spoken) in English.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical problems, analytical insights and business implications in simple plain stories. Ability to present information professionally & concisely with supporting data
• Ability to work effectively & independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to engage with cross-functional teams for implementation of project/program requirements

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience of preparing and building reports/ dashboards used by business leaders