Business Analyst I, Abuse Data Science

Job summary
Amazon.com’s Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. Amazon runs one of the most dynamic e-commerce marketplaces in the world, with nearly 2 million sellers worldwide selling hundreds of millions of items in ten countries. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. BRP organization is looking for a Business Analyst for its Operations Analytics team. The team is being grown to provide insights about its BRP operations and provide analytical solutions to help drive operational efficiencies, uncover the hidden risks and trends, reduce investigation errors and bad debt, improve customer experience and predict & recommend the optimizations for future state of BRP operations.

As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of business intelligence, data mining and visualization techniques. You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to solve problems, create operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources and analytical techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and present the insights in concise and effective manner. Additionally, the candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business.

Key job responsibilities

• Use analytics and data mining techniques to solve complex problems and drive business decisions.
• Employ the appropriate tools, methodologies to discover patterns of risks, abuse and help reduce bad debt
• Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build actionable models to optimize BRP operations
• Solve analytical problems, and effectively communicate methodologies and results
• Build analyses for product launches and operations and help predict workflow and capacity requirements for BRP operations
• Draw inferences and conclusions, and create dashboards and visualizations of processed data, identify trends, anomalies
• Work closely with internal stakeholders such as business teams, engineering teams, and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Math, Finance, or related discipline
• 3+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst, data analyst or statistical analysis role
• 3+ years of professional experience working with large data sets and writing complex SQL queries to pull data
• Demonstrated Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and analytical platforms as well as Tableau
• Experience in developing requirements and formulating business metrics for reporting, familiarity with data visualization tools, e.g. Tableau
• Demonstrated ability to display complex quantitative data in a simple, intuitive format and to present findings in a clear and concise manner

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst, data analyst or statistical analysis role
• Advanced technical or business degree (MS or MBA)
• Analytical ability to dissect complex problems and deliver results
• Organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines
• Data Science skills

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/en/disability/us.