World Wide Headcount Management centrally support headcount related activities for on site and support roles within our operations across multiple lane of business. Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while supporting key leaders and finance stakeholders. You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet.
WW seeks a Finance Manager to support Central Headcount Management. This role offers opportunities to grow your career as you engage on one of the many facets of this world-class operations business. From here you will have the opportunity to interact with executive Leadership and grow your skills.
This role partners closely with a broad range of finance and operations leaders to drive cost improvement and support headcount planning strategy. The role works with stakeholders and business partners in other regions and countries often engaging with teams such as Reporting Headcount Management Standardization Automation and FP&A. This role designs develops and maintains performance measurements and reports on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.
The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: Ability to influence business owners support thoughtful decision-making and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment and collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon through excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Identifies basic control risks evaluates impact proposes changes and implements improvements to remediate gaps.
- Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans forecasts budgets and consolidations.
- Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data identifies root causes of data issues escalates discrepancies fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
- Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear concise and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
- Identifies and implements solutions to resolve improve automate standardize or simplify finance processes.
- Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work resolves issues meets deadlines and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.
- Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events initiatives and projects then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.
- Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive collaborative and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.
- 5 years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting or related field
- 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 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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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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.