Finance Manager - Alexa 1P, Alexa Home Finance

Description

Amazon seeks an experienced Finance Manager to play a key role on the Alexa 1P and Alexa Home Finance team leading product, pricing and econometric valuations. This role will be responsible for driving broad insights that can shape the Alexa financial strategy, to inform short and long term investment decisions. The successful candidate will lead a team to build scalable analyses, key performance indicators and insights. These insights will be shared with the Alexa Business and Finance Leadership team to inform strategic decision making. This position will work closely with multiple stakeholders across the organization to align on critical inputs, ranges of outcomes, and confidence intervals. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and dynamic businesses. This role requires someone to be a strategic thinker, analytical, creative, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage the responsibilities of a fast-paced business while building and leading a team.

Key job responsibilities
- Own Alexa business inputs and outputs, inclusive of month end close, in-year planning cycles and long-range plan.
- Partner across stakeholder teams to align on valuation methodologies for actuals and forecasting purposes.
- Develop proforma P&Ls by customer segment to ensure leaders can tie investment priorities to financial outcomes and understand the business attribution to the GAAP and econometric P&L in the short and long range horizon.
- Work with big data and transforming it into insights and information
- Develop success metrics and dynamic scenario models to be used by business partners to help drive data driven decision making
- Lead automation efforts of critical processes
- Lead a team to deliver high quality insights to inform decisions making across a spectrum of values streams

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
- 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 5+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience
- 8+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business or related field

Preferred Qualifications

- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
- 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.