DESCRIPTION

Amazon seeks a Portfolio & Credit Analyst to join Amazon’s Investments team, which oversees the active management of $60 - 70B of fixed income portfolios, portfolio risk management, and Amazon’s $20B commercial paper program.

The primary responsibilities of this role include idea generation, trade execution, contributing to asset allocation strategy, oversight of external managers, ensuring portfolio compliance, portfolio reporting and analysis, and ongoing process improvement. This role will also be responsible for developing and implementing enhanced portfolio risk management processes, monitoring counterparty exposures, and mitigating portfolio risk.

The successful candidate should be comfortable with ambiguity and balancing multiple competing priorities. The candidate will be required to work closely with banking counterparties and external investment managers to develop existing relationships and establish new relationships as necessary. This role will work cross-functionally both within Treasury and with the broad and diverse set of Amazon business lines such as Accounting and Tax.

This position requires a self-starter who will work to continuously improve Treasury processes while maintaining a rigorous control environment and compliance with various Amazon policies.


Key job responsibilities
- Formulate strategies, create trade plans, and execute transactions to efficiently manage Amazon’s fixed income portfolios.
- Work with banking partners and external investment managers to identify opportunities to increase risk adjusted returns while maintaining liquidity.
- Develop and enhance analytics to provide insights into the Company’s fixed income portfolio performance.
- Ensure portfolios comply with the Global Investment Policy, portfolio guidelines, and other key investment restrictions.
- Perform ad hoc analyses related to portfolios and markets as required by both Amazon Treasury and other internal business partners.
- Enhance the framework to manage counterparty exposure and credit risk across portfolio holdings.