Finance Manager, Amazon

• 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 in accounts receivable or account payable
• 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

• Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) finance 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 world's 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?
• Drive the core financial processes for the organisation including Annual Operating Plans, 3 year Strategic Plan, and Monthly/Quarterly 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 programs/initiatives 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