Amazon seeks a Finance Manager to join the Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. This position will work closely with various stakeholders including Accounting Finance and Financial system teams to solve complex problems that directly impact Amazons financial reporting. The successful candidate will lead company-wide finance transformation projects that change how Amazon consumes stores and analyzes financial data.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead large-scale change management initiatives and provide strategic direction on how to optimize the way finance organizations function across Amazon.
- Partner with Business Finance teams and other Corp FP&A teams to drive financial assignment and allocation to appropriate businesses for each monthly and planning cycle.
- Generate business insights based on financial results (employee expense headcount P&L and cash flow) and use them to influence strategic decisions being made about the businesses.
- Partner with Accounting Tax Treasury and Business Intelligence teams to define requirements for and prioritize projects to improve reporting accuracy and automation.
- Support operations partners in areas that include but are not limited to planning productivity goals defect tracking metrics and performance measurement and operations cost reduction projects.
- Ad hoc financial analysis and data support for business team.
A day in the life
This is an excellent opportunity to shape a growing business in an entrepreneurial environment. This person will dive deep to understand the intricacies of data and its sources combine multiple sources of data to build a complete picture of business performance partner with business teams to address reporting needs and concisely communicate performance drivers to business partners and finance leadership. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
About the team
Corporate Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) provides strategic support to Amazons CFO and executive team (S-team) on enterprise-wide planning analysis and reporting. Our team is responsible for the production and administration of several key finance deliverables.
We manage:
-key month-end and quarter-end processes;
-planning processes including quarterly estimates the annual operating plan and the 3-year forecast;
-company-wide S-team goal review processes; and
-other exciting ad-hoc projects for our leadership team.
- 6 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- 6 years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
- 6 years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 6 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 6 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting or related field
- 7 years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 7 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
- 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
- CPA
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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.