How often have you had an opportunity to drive impact across different companies The Worldwide Grocery Stores FP&A team is looking to hire a strong and selfstarter Finance Manager to support planning cycles and strategic projects across Whole Foods Markets Fresh Go and other ventures in the grocery space.
The Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) FP&A team is dedicated to working closely with business and finance leadership to generate key insight for decision making across Whole Foods Markets Fresh Go and new projects. We track performance formulate the medium to long term financial and strategic plans and seek to increase efficiency and profitability by analyzing financial and operational results. As we continue to grow we are looking for individuals who enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across WWGS Finance and within the broader Amazon Finance organization (FGBS).
We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our Planning team to support planning cycles (e.g. OP1/3YF OP2 Guidance 10YF) and strategic projects across our banners including deep diving central allocations to reduce opex modelling and automating a highlevel 3year plan and standardizing our P&Ls. This role supports the senior leadership team within WWGS and will own delivering key planning reports leading periodic reviews providing valuable insight for financial planning and recommending costsaving opportunities.
This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across our organization often at some of the most senior levels within the company. The leader must be effective at working through teams across the WW Grocery Stores organization to consolidate and articulate the overall drivers of current and future performance as well as providing timely and accurate insight to Amazon senior leadership. That means the leader is a collaborator and good at stitching together multiple inputs to tell an accurate and insightful story of whats happening. The leader needs to be entrepreneurial wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment. Excellent analytical and verbal/written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are selfstarters analytical collaborate and influence business/finance partners support thoughtful decisionmaking in a rapidlyevolving and ambiguous environment and think longterm.
Key job responsibilities
Support planning cycles (e.g. OP1/3YF OP2 Guidance 10YF) including updating a variety of financials reports and P&Ls conducting adhoc analysis and collecting key insight from finance partners.
Drive strategic projects across our banners including optimizing opex allocations modelling and automating a highlevel 3year plan and standardizing our P&Ls across banners channels and reporting cycle (e.g. MEC Planning).
Provide valuable insight for financial planning based on current performance.
Analyze and recommend costsaving opportunities.
Support WW Amazon Stores Finance (IPAT) and Corporate FP&A to communicate WW Grocery Stores plans and performance to Amazons senior leadership and Board of Directors.
Continue developing the teams vision and establish a positive team culture.
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 Masters degree and 3 years of finance 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
Experience working with largescale 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 $85900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.