Finance Manager, Amazon
World-Wide Operations Sustainability Finance
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- This is an exciting role for a Finance Manager who enjoys influencing both strategy and tactical execution, has a passion for innovation and thrives from working with senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's 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 applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data 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
Desirable
- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing 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)
What the job involves
- Are you interested in pioneering new products and programs to help Amazon become the industry leader in sustainable operations?
- Are you interested in the science of sustainability and passionate about innovating on behalf of our customers to solve this global problem?
- Amazon is seeking a high performing Finance Manager to partner with the World-Wide Sustainability Operations team supporting our carbon emissions reduction goals
- As a Finance Manager of WW Operations Sustainability (WWOSF), you will be a finance leader partnering across various business units (ATS, AMZL, CF, Packaging, Inbound Logistics, etc.) and geographies (US, EU, JP, ROW) within operations as well as with the central Worldwide Amazon Sustainability team
- You will identify opportunities, lead projects, provide guidance and ensure proper reporting is in place for the new and evolving carbon reporting requirements
- As a key member of the WWOSF team, you will directly influence business decisions including investments, pricing models, and long term strategy
- Leading financial analysis and due diligence for sustainability projects
- Engaging with partner teams to align on long term strategy and consolidate carbon emissions forecast
- Running financial review meetings with business groups and working with business managers to quantify and report on initiatives and projects
- Creating, improving, and maintaining financial metrics, reports and scorecards
- Communicating financial and business results including variance analyses to senior business leaders
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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