App Dev Engineer - TM1, AWS Fintech

Job ID: 2674451 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Services Finance seeks a Financial Systems Developer with expertise in the areas of requirements gathering, technical design, development, deployment, and integration to solve budgeting, planning, performance management, and reporting challenges. Solutions must strike the right balance between precision and speed, providing ever more scalable and granular data models and reporting, without sacrificing accuracy or agility. This position requires a high level of technical expertise within Cognos.

On the Finance team, you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world-class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously – you should too!

We need individuals that bring Corporate Finance experience AND the entrepreneurial aptitude to accelerate decision-making and management of the business. Also needed is the intellectual capacity to produce innovative ideas/analysis and the willingness to do the heavy lifting to implement those decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Design, test, and implement reliable, scalable, and efficient Cognos solutions.
2. Design, test, and implement user interfaces to the platform.
3. Document planning-related processes, model design, and data flow.
4. Partner with peer Finance teams to ensure consistent and seamless design.
5. Document technical business requirements.
6. Maintain OLAP multi-dimensional cubes and support dimension management, metadata design/maintenance, and ETL development.
7. Support the development of standard and ad hoc reports, tools, and templates.
8. Perform analysis and partner with other finance staff to ensure the financial results are accurate and complete.
9. Provide risk assessment for new functionality and enhancements.
10. Identify process improvement opportunities.
11. Author knowledge-sharing documents.
12. Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and develop new processes to support the fast-growing, global business.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other technical discipline.
2. 5+ years of relevant Cognos experience including system configuration, model building, and developing reports or dashboards with other reporting tools.
3. Relevant corporate finance experience exhibiting knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting functions and related processes.
4. Advanced knowledge and expertise with SQL, OLAP, and data warehousing concepts.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Direct experience using OLAP performance management (CPM) tools, preferably Cognos v10x (Perspectives/Architect), or similar technology (Hyperion/Essbase, etc).
2. Familiarity with solutions such as EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, and Aurora.
3. Familiarity and development experience with web services technologies is a strong plus (e.g. HTTPS, REST, XML, JSON, etc.).
4. Experience developing scorecards and dashboards.
5. JAVA/PERL/Ruby/Python scripting language experience.
6. Experience with third-party ETL tools (IBM DataStage or Data Manager, Informatica, etc.).

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.