Finance Manager

at Amazon in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description

Amazon’s North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to be a trusted finance partner supporting operational and functional leaders. Amazon operates the most complex retail networks in the world, delivering billions of packages to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses annually. Come be part of this tremendous organization and join a dedicated team committed to operational and financial excellence where you will focus on the inputs, think like an owner and where every day is Day One.

Key job responsibilities

FP&A

- You use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, and drive improvements.

- You manage development of weekly and monthly financial reviews, forecasting, and reporting models and their continuous innovation and communicating to Financial and Operations partners.

- You identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.

- You identify the need for improved controls to address risk driven by business, industry, policy, and regulatory changes and proactively propose control solutions.

- You create effective business partnership, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance during unexpected events.

Business Analysis

- You identify and implement opportunities to resolve finance issues, improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes across teams and organizations.

- You understand how data flows through our financial platforms and know the right data to use for analysis, and establish a source of truth.

- You simplify and centralize process improvement and reporting to allow business partners and customers to take action quickly.

People

- You take part in hiring and developing activities and mentor new team members.

- You seek, value, and leverage diverse perspectives.

- You challenge business partner plans and assumptions when needed.

- You communicate data in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both verbally and in writing.

- You can articulate complex finance issues to non-Finance partners.

- You positively contribute to work/life harmony on your team and find creative solutions to solve gaps for your team.

A day in the life

The AR Controllership team is a newly formed team that will collaborate with multiple teams and organizations within Amazon. This role gives you a chance to help build a newly formed team and establish standards within fulfillment centers. A typical day in this role includes: solving complex problems effecting company wide strategic decision-making, leading through ambiguity, identifying high priority work/projects to maximize results for key stakeholders, designing and implementing new financial reporting/modeling, and finding creative solutions utilizing large scale data mining tools.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field

- 5+ years of finance experience, accounting, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

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

- 5+ 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

- 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)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.