Finance Manager
Amazon
Finance Manager
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
Do you want to be part of an organization that is designing and launching new business? Do you enjoy fusing customer experience, operational knowledge, and financial understanding to create a holistic picture? If so, Amazon SSD Finance is looking for a Finance Manager with a record of achieving results.
The SSD team covers a portfolio of high-growth businesses with unique fulfillment and operational capabilities. Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses.
This role will be part of the Strategy team responsible for financial analysis, new initiatives, and operational models. You will support strategic business initiatives as well as support the overall growth of the network. You will partner across multiple teams to develop and design analysis frameworks and models. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. You will collaborate with stakeholders across Amazon, bring excellent verbal and written communication skills, and prioritize impactful projects to drive the business forward.
Key job responsibilities
- Build complex financial models and perform sophisticated analyses to drive investment decisions for new business initiatives
- Lead capital planning and optimization efforts for the growing SSD network, including building launch strategies, capex forecasting, allocation, and ROI analysis
- Partner with business teams to define financial and non-financial trade-offs, making thoughtful judgment calls in ambiguous environments
- Identify and solve complex data integrity issues while maintaining high standards
- Develop and implement scalable financial solutions to improve tools, technology, and processes
- Participate in defining strategy and roadmap for key business initiatives
- Create clear and compelling narratives to communicate complex financial concepts to stakeholders
- Contribute to the broader Finance community through knowledge sharing and best practice documentation
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field
- 5+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
- MBA, or CPA
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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