Finance Manager, Amazon
Middle Mile FP&A
$85.9-179.5k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$85.9-179.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will demonstrate the following abilities: they have strong financial modeling skills, technical aptitude to analyze large data sets, clearly communicate financial data analysis findings with stakeholders, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment
- Candidates should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with leadership is common
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)
- 5+ years of finance experience, or Master's degree and 3+ years of finance experience
Desirable
- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 5+ 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
What the job involves
- Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager to help own critical functions within the rapidly growing Middle Mile org
- Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally
- This role will be part of the Middle Mile FP&A team supporting Surface Transportation
- In addition to owning month end close reporting, the Finance Manager will partner with Middle Mile and Operations Standardization and Automation (S&A) teams as we build standardized reporting solutions and automation to improve middle mile planning speed, quality and cost structure
- They collaborate with leaders and various business units across Amazon
- A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions
- Lead Surface Transportation monthly reporting. This includes delivering monthly financial close by generating cost bridges, partnering with key stakeholders to generate narratives for senior leadership, and distilling key insights on the impact of KPIs on our performance
- Play a key role in our journey for process simplification, standardization, and automation
- Provide financial support to business partners on key initiatives that improve the quality of deliveries, speed of delivery and/or reduce costs
- Identify risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps
- Proactively partner with managers to prioritize and focus on high-impact activities and to de-prioritize those which are unlikely to drive material improvement
- Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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