at Amazon in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
BEATS (Business, Electronics, Automotive, Technology & Solutions ) Finance is seeking a Finance Manager to join its Category Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to create and innovate on behalf of our customers and vendors in the Video Games category.
The Finance Manager will be a finance partner to the Video Games business team supporting controllership and category growth activities through thoughtful insights and financial analysis. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis.
The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and have the demonstrated ability to effectively manage the finances of a large organization.
Key job responsibilities
- Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling.
- Contribute to business decisions by providing insightful analysis and methodical consideration for the end-to-end impact to systems, financial controls and ongoing support requirements.
- Identify opportunities and drive automation in existing manual process
- Facilitate financial review meetings with cross functional teams and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management.
- Manage the annual financial planning & analysis and quarterly budgeting exercise accurately, completely and in a timely basis
- Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
- Facilitate the Business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items.
A day in the life
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following abilities: they influence business owners, effectively lead meetings with senior leaders, support thoughtful decision-making through data, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. This individual will also play a key role in decision making and developing financial insights as part of monthly and quarterly business reviews.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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
- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.