Finance Manager, Amazon Robotics

Description

On the Amazon Robotics (AR) team, we build dynamic partnerships between people and intelligent machines. This intricate collaboration helps Amazon fulfill orders with unmatched accuracy. Working in symphony with our robotic technology, employees have the opportunity to extend their technical capabilities by working alongside some of the industry's most advanced technologies. This includes our fleet of autonomous mobile robots (the world's largest), sophisticated control software, and technologies like language perception, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of environments.

These technologies help employees deliver an ever-improving customer and employee experience, as well as improve the safety of our facilities. We focus on solving near term opportunities while charting a roadmap for how we will navigate the product development needs to maximize business value over the next 3 - 5 years.

Our Finance team is currently seeking a Finance Manager with a proven ability to work within a dynamic environment and partner with senior leadership to achieve their goals. This role will partner with leadership in our Amazon Robotics Storage Tech team in order to deliver and scale new automation products.

This person must thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate an understanding of core finance and accounting principles, and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics. Amazon is fast-growing, which means that employees are often asked to perform tasks with a range of difficulties. Candidates must be motivated, disciplined, and able to work effectively autonomously.

Key job responsibilities

As a Finance Manager, you will collaborate directly with key business stakeholders to advise on strategic decision making and planning, develop detailed financial models evaluating opportunities, and act as 'CFO' to Amazon Robotics leadership. You will also independently identify opportunities for efficiency and cost savings across the organization.

Primary responsibilities include:

- Perform detailed analysis and provide recommendations on strategic initiatives and proposals

- Build financial models and advise on key sensitivities and drivers

- Establish and maintain operating and business metrics to evaluate performance and efficiency

- Lead short and long-term financial planning and budgeting

- Present financial summaries and business insights to senior management

- Act as a controller to evaluate and approve spend proposals and ensure the team is meeting plan

Basic Qualifications

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

- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

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

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