Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) finance
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org, an area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel. This person will be a
leader in the Finance organization supporting the business initiatives related
to SWA EU. This is a very high impact and high visibility role supporting
sustainable growth in the EU business. Person in this role will have
advancement opportunities to support different businesses and to lead programs
or products.
The ideal candidate will be primarily responsible for Financial Planning &
Analysis activities for EU, driving financial modelling and reporting,
controllership and identifying opportunities across pricing and operations
cost as a result. This person will be working closely with Business,
Operations, Product and Tech teams, as well as ATS and AMZL Finance teams.
This person will partner with multiple stakeholders to provide timely
analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership to this high-growth
organization. This role requires extensive cross-functional partnership with
various retail, transportation, and finance teams to identify best practices
across the network and lead cost improvement efforts for operations. It also
requires a strong self-starter mentality, exceptional stakeholder management
capabilities and will stretch your leadership skills while also requiring you
to digest the complexity of the Amazon transportation network to deliver
process improvement.
Amazon’s Marketplace services over 2 million Sellers, disrupting traditional
notions of retail marketplace and connecting millions of businesses, big and
small, to millions of Amazon Customers. The Marketplace business exceeds 50%
of the total Amazon.com sales and each year, tens of thousands of businesses
join the marketplace adding millions of new products. Sellers are a critical
part of Amazons ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earth’s
largest selection, lowest prices, and outstanding delivery experience.
Want to help build the finance team at the worlds leading e-commerce company?
Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop
those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status
quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily?
Key job responsibilities
• Drive the core financial processes for the organisation including Annual
Operating Plans, 3 year Strategic Plan, and MonthlyQuarterly Business Reviews
• Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs, and
make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be
scarce or difficult to procure.
• Partner with senior business leaders and develop operational metrics and
goal setting to help the team improve performance
• Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written
and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for
various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your
communications drive critical business decisions.
• Analyse ROI of different programsinitiatives and generate actionable
insights from large amounts of data
• Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues,
harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.
• Exhibit social responsibility. Actively recruit bar-raising talent,
continuously develop your team.
### BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelors
degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-
engineering, quality assurance)
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in building financial and operational reportsdata sets that
inform business decision-making
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to
scale and improve controllership with measurable results
### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQLETL
- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the
root cause and creatingimplementing an escalation plan
- Experience in 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 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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