Finance Manager - Cash Flow Planning, Corp FP&A, Corp FP&A

Description

Within Amazon’s Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A), we enjoy a unique perspective into everything happening within Amazon. Our team provides strategic support to the CFO and senior leadership on enterprise-wide planning, analysis, and reporting. As the central place the entire company looks to for an understanding of financial performance, we play a major role in driving business decisions.

One of Amazon’s key financial focus is long‑term, sustainable growth in free cash flow. As part of the Corporate Free Cash Flow (FCF) Planning team, the Finance Manager/Principal will be responsible for the production and administration of several key finance deliverables. In this role, you will own key processes essential to the heartbeat of Amazon Finance by focusing on developing best practices for Corporate FP&A that have company‑wide impact.

• Key month‑end and quarter‑end processes
• Planning processes including quarterly estimates, the annual operating plan/3‑year forecast
• Company‑wide senior team goal review processes
• Ad‑hoc projects for our leadership team

• Lead executive level FCF related projects
• Contribute to Balance Sheet Working Capital and/or Capex forecasting, reporting, and analysis
• Perform financial analyses and provide insightful narratives related to Working Capital, Capex, and FCF
• Gather, define, and drive requirements for and prioritize projects to improve reporting functionality, accuracy, and automation
• Ad hoc financial analysis and data support for business teams and finance leadership
• Enhance existing forecasting models
• Build executive level presentations highlighting the quarterly financial results and related guidance ranges
• Present ad hoc business analysis and recommendations to senior leadership
• Consult on company‑wide forecasting activities
• Recommend and deliver improvements and provide scoping documents for system and process enhancements

This highly visible role will be responsible for the forecasting, reporting, and analysis of Amazon’s Free Cash flow critical components, such as Capital Expenditures through close collaborations with business finance teams across Amazon. The Finance Manager will dive deep to gain a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of free cash flow and deliver insightful analyses and narratives to Amazon’s CFO, CEO, and other executive team members.

The Finance Manager drives key projects and will be a key business partner to the business finance teams, Finance Operations, Accounting, and Tax. We are looking for an experienced finance professional who is adaptable, capable of exercising high judgment, making informed decisions and insists on the highest standards.

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision‑making experience
• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field

• MBA, or CPA
• 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)
• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Experience with general Accounting around working Capital, CAPEX, and/or Free Cash Flow

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

USA, WA, Seattle - 95,400. USD annually