Finance Manager, Payments, Amazon Payments Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. The Payment Acceptance and Experience (PAE) mission is to build the most trusted, intuitive, and accessible payment experience on earth by providing customers the ability to pay on and off Amazon. PAE Finance manages a complex ecosystem that spans card networks, payment processors, and fintech companies that all Amazon businesses rely on to get paid. We are looking for strong Finance manager with the analytical prowess to understand drivers across the payments ecosystem in order to partner with stakeholders across Amazon, including Stores, Entertainment, Advertising, AWS, and Kuiper businesses to plan Cost of Payments, the company’s 4th largest variable expense. This is a highly visible role within Amazon Payments. The right candidate will be self-motivated, have considerable financial acumen, and be comfortable operating in ambiguity. The candidate must be able to balance challenging priorities, meet tight deadlines, and provide insights and recommendations through data driven analysis.

Requirements

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• 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 identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• 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

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or CPA

Responsibilities

• Lead global planning and forecasting for Amazon’s Cost of Payments
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to gather inputs on worldwide financial forecasts, including the right mix of payment products
• Drive controllership of Cost of Payments by improving controls and leading monthly reporting mechanisms
• Build financial models/business cases to support cost of payments planning for senior leadership
• Help the finance team drive standardization, simplify processes and build scalable solutions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees