Finance Manager, NACF Finance

Description

Amazon's North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to be the trusted finance partner for fulfillment centers 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 growth 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.

Success in Role:

You know your business and identify opportunities to decrease cost and/or improve customer and employee experience. You leverage appropriate resources to deep dive and make recommendations and influence leaders. You formulate how to deliver improvements and execute across all fulfillment centers. You play an active role in recruiting and coaching others - on your team or other teams. You understand controllership and are working to increase your knowledge here.

Key job responsibilities

Business Finance Support:

* 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.

* Independently align financial and operational analyses with your business partners, challenging business partner assumptions when necessary.

* Provide analysis and recommendations to business leaders to support operational and growth business decisions and action plans.

* Proactively identify opportunities to resolve finance defects and improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes across teams and organizations.

Controllership:

* Own the financial reporting for a business area and may supervise or teach others in areas of financial reporting.

* Identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.

* Develop and execute data analysis processes that are scalable and auditable.

Communication:

* Intuitively utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues.

* Create effective business partnership with Site Leaders, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance during unexpected events.

Team Leadership:

* Take part in hiring, developing, and mentoring activities while you seek value, and leverage diverse perspectives.

A day in the life

No day in Operations is ever the same! As a Finance Manager in the NACF team you will work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. You'll work alongside your Ops and Support teams to help make Amazon the Earth's Best

Employer:

Production meetings, labor planning, business reviews and data driven analysis will encompass your days. You may even get to pack a box or two!

Some travel will be required as part of this role.

About the team

This role will partner closely with a broad range of Senior Leaders in Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Accounting, HR and Technology. This role plays a critical role as a financial advocate and business partner. This role will design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.

Basic Qualifications

* 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

* 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience

* 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

* 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses 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

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

* Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) 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,…