At Amazon Finance has the unique challenge of stewarding and bolstering tremendous business growth through applying financial acumen objectivity and leadership while staying nimble and adaptive to evolving business needs. Amazon Finance drives direct impact by being a hand-in-hand business partner in developing measuring and executing on our long term strategy to invent on behalf of our customers. To do so we are looking for an exceptional Senior Finance Manager to lead the WW Promotions & Events Finance team who possesses the leadership to influence a bias for action and the passion to think big while driving business results.
Successful candidate should be able to think and act both strategically and tactically. This individual should possess solid business judgment strong analytical skills attention to detail and the strong desire to dive deep into data results and problem solving. The successful candidate will lead a high performing team of finance managers and analysts working closely with leadership to provide strategic guidance and decision support in this space. This individual must be able own the financial reporting for a business area use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results drive improvements and have global impact. They must be able to communicate data in a clear concise and unambiguous manner both verbally and in writing.
Key job responsibilities
Lead a high performing team of finance managers and analysts
Serve as financial thought leader for strategic initiatives for Amazons global Promotions & Events domains.
Work closely with program managers to research execute and analyze promotions and pricing experiments to drive long term free cash flow.
Provide go/no go decision support through experimentation statistical modeling and/or trend analysis on initiatives.
Develop metrics reporting and audit mechanisms to measure the accuracy of newly launched programs and initiatives.
Implement the governance structure and early warning systems needed to manage execution risk
Build and maintain in depth knowledge across key business areas by staying current on initiatives challenges/opportunities across the business
Develop framework to automate margin bridges to account for variances between plan and actuals.
Lead financial controllership
- 12 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- 3 years of performing financial and ad hoc analysis using data reporting tools experience
- 10 years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience
- 8 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 8 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 8 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 3 years of hiring leading and developing teams experience
- Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g. Engineering Math and Computer Science)
- 5 years of hiring leading and developing teams experience
- 8 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 8 years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 8 years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
- 5 years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
- MBA or CPA
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 153000.00 - 207000.00 USD annually