Senior Data Scientist, Stores Finance Science, Stores Finance Science

Senior Data Scientist, Amazon Stores Finance Science, Amazon Stores Finance Science

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WW Amazon Stores Finance Science (ASFS) works to leverage science and economics to drive improved financial results, foster data-backed decisions, and embed science within Finance. ASFS is focused on developing products that empower controllership, improve business decisions and financial planning by understanding financial drivers, and innovate science capabilities for efficiency and scale. We are looking for a data scientist to lead high visibility initiatives for forecasting Amazon Stores' financials.

You will develop new science-based forecasting methodologies and build scalable models to improve financial decision making and planning for senior leadership up to VP and SVP level. You will build new ML and statistical models from the ground up that aim to transform financial planning for Amazon Stores. We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to draw on an expansive methodological toolkit to transform financial decision-making with science.

The ideal candidate combines data-science acumen with strong business judgment. You have versatile modeling skills and are comfortable owning and extracting insights from data. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into business action.

• Demonstrating thorough technical knowledge, effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard ML models
• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across every step of science project life cycle
• Collaborating with finance, product, data engineering, and software engineering teams to create production implementations for large-scale ML models
• Innovating by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures
• Presenting research results to our internal research community

• 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 4+ years of data scientist experience
• Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science
• Experience managing data pipelines

• Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team
• Knowledge of AWS tech stack (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, EC2, Glue)
• Master's degree
• Experience in forecasting analyses
• Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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