Finance Manager, Amazon Shipping

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

20h

About The Position

Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager for its Amazon Shipping US Finance team supporting FP&A. This person will be a key leader in the Finance organization supporting strategic planning, reporting, and controllership. This is a very high impact and high visibility role supporting the growing US business as it seeks to scale through new demand streams. The person in this role has advancement opportunities to support different businesses and to lead programs or products. About the team Amazon Shipping is an industry leading shipping service provider (SSP) that offers better reliability and shipper/recipient experience at the right price point within every marketplace we operate. Over the last 25 years, Amazon has built world-class operations with Amazon Fulfillment Network (AFN). Amazon Shipping has developed technology, commercial expertise, and operational processes to externalize this network, reducing overall costs to Amazon through incremental density and monetizing our logistics capability. Our goal is to become customer obsessed and sustainable business, helping Amazon reduce its dependency on third-party SSPs and providing retailers with high quality shipping solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or CFA
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Drive the core financial processes for the organization 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.
• Ensure high degree of controllership by establishing risk mitigating measures and approvals in accordance with our Spending and Transaction policy and create GRC processes.
• Work on delivering key automation projects.
• 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 communication drives critical business decisions.
• Analyze ROI of different programs/initiatives to improve revenue and reduce costs 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.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level