Finance Manager, Transportation Controllership

Amazon is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to support Amazon Transportation Services a leader in the global supply chain revolution through pioneering robotics revolutionary automation initiatives seeking sustainable solutions such as electric vehicles and introducing one-day delivery for millions of products in order to deliver billions of packages to delight customers.

The Finance Manager will own Financial Reporting and Analytics and ensure financial statements are correct in the transportation space for inbound middle mile and outbound. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon. You will learn to produce insightful financial reporting build robust and repeatable financial processes controls and perform in-depth analysis on transportation spend numbers. Given the nature of our business you will learn to venture into unknown territory and learn how to succeed in a new space.

This role partners across Transportation Fulfillment Supply Chain and Technology teams to improve efficiencies while improving customer experience globally. This role works with business intelligence engineers accountants accounting managers data engineers program and product managers. This role creates a learn by doing environment by engaging with business and technology to promote and encourage continued customer focus. You will anticipate and resolve bottlenecks while balancing business needs and escalating where appropriate.

The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: ability to develop insights using activity based costing data analysis econometrics and statistics and excellent verbal and written communication. This role will work in a dynamic environment working with some of the worlds largest data sets in logistics costing. As such the Finance Manager must combine excellent business analysis skills with the ability to derive actionable cost measures for consumption across Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
- Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models interpret data draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results drive improvements and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.
- Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems SQL and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs analytical dashboards and reports plans forecasts budgets and consolidations.
- Drives continuous improvement and standardization of processes including implementation of best practices in the controllership area.
- Supports financial reporting and operating planning demonstrating finance acumen and ability to quickly adapt to different business needs.
- Prepares concise documents tailored to various levels of stakeholders and collaborates with operations leaders and other teams.
- 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.
- Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
- Participates in hiring developing and mentoring peers and team members. Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities.
- Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves scales or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.

A day in the life
The Finance Manager blends advanced reporting data analysis critical thinking and project management skills while understanding and further developing financial applications. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to resolve ambiguous problems build analytical dashboards and reports own month end close deliverables work with tech partners to resolve technical issues and ensure successful accounting automation launch for month end close processes.

About the team
Transportation Controllership is a global finance team responsible for Financial Reporting activities establishing Financial Control Frameworks and Advanced Analytics in the transportation space including import domestic inbound warehouse transfer and outbound shipments. We partner closely with transportation business units and tech teams as they work to continually refine and scale the business to keep pace with Amazons rapid growth. Along with our partners in Accounting we are responsible for the contractual and managerial closing of the books for Transportation spend.

- Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science)
- 5 years of finance experience or Masters degree and 3 years of finance experience

- MBA or CPA
- 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
- 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.