Finance Manager, Amazon Shipping

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.


Key job 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.

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.

Basic Qualifications

- 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)
- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ 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
- MBA, or CPA
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually