Financial Operations Analyst
Foster City, CA$120k - $160kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Finance Operations Analyst focusing on MEC and purchase order hygiene, partnering with budget owners, FP&A, and Accounting to improve financial processes and accuracy. Drives compliance, spend visibility, and procure-to-pay efficiency using SAP S4, SAP Ariba, and other reporting systems.
Responsibilities
- - Support month-end close by providing PO and receipt data to Accounting and identifying unreceived goods and services for accrual
- - Build and maintain trackers on committed spend versus budget by cost center
- - Track and report compliance metrics to Finance leadership, including PR turnaround time, coding error rates, and policy exception volume
- - Review purchase requisitions for compliance with U.S. GAAP and Zoox accounting policies
- - Conduct pre-approval compliance checks of purchase orders against budget and forecast models, escalating discrepancies to the appropriate lead analyst within FP&A
- - Conduct Forecast vs. Actuals (FvA) analysis during monthly and quarterly closes
- - Review agreements and contracts to determine appropriate PR structure and coding, and re-structure PRs and POs as policies change
- - Partner with business owners to resolve incomplete or non-compliant purchase requisitions, and guide requesters and the internal team on PR requirements and accounting policy
- - Own open PO review and cleanup, including aging analysis, closure of stale purchase orders, and truing up open POs with requesters
Qualifications
- - BA/BS degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, or a quantitative field
- - 4+ years of relevant work experience in finance operations, procurement, accounting, or FP&A
- - Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP, particularly as it applies to expense classification and capitalization
- - Hands-on experience with a major ERP system (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
- - Experience with spend management or procurement software (e.g., Coupa, Ariba)
- - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, and analysis of large datasets)
- - Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain accounting policy clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- - Detail-oriented and reliable, with a positive attitude and the ability to quickly adapt to changes in a fast-moving environment
Skills
Required:U.S. GAAPSAP S4SAP AribaERP systemsExcel
Benefits
- paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
- health insurance
- long-term care insurance
- long-term and short-term disability insurance
- life insurance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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