Finance Manager, Amazon Payments WW SMB Financing

Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) are hard pressed for both time and working capital. They want the best working capital options with transparent and effective cost fast funds delivery when they need it and service that makes their experience easier. This need presents tremendous opportunities for Amazon and our lending partners to step change the experience of SMB around the world enabling them to grow their businesses on and off Amazon delight their customers and make positive impact to the communities that they serve.

Amazon Small Medium Business Financing (SMBF) is expanding with the ambition to provide the worlds best-in-class customer experience product solutions and credit products to our customers. Amazons Fintech lender Amazon SMBF seeks a Finance leader to be the CFO of our global lending this role you will own the entire SMBF portfolio as well as be the thought leader for new product launches working with the global lending team to drive meaningful growth. The team supports the Global Business Payments organization which provides working capital solutions to Sellers and Business-to-Business (B2B) buyers so that they can invest to grow their businesses.

We are seeking an innovative results-oriented customer-centric Finance leader to join our team in Seattle to drive growth and expand our lending business to new areas. This role is cross functional you will partner closely with finance treasury accounting and product teams to help drive new projects to help growth and controllership for our lending organization.

Ideal candidates will have the following strengths:
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment
- The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions
- Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads
- An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth
- The ability to work cross-functionally with product operations marketing and BI teams
- Solid business judgment and controllership focus
- Strong financial modelling skills including good knowledge of SQL and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Experience as a people leader



Key job responsibilities
The person in this role is responsible for long and short term financial planning controllership developing and reporting on weekly financial and operational performance metrics and providing analytical and leadership support. This position will be a key risk/controllership gateway for the payments business and requires a candidate with strong communication and leadership skills. A portion of the time will be spent on ad hoc analysis to support the growing business needs. The B2B Payments Finance team works closely with a number of other finance and business teams so any candidate should be able to work well with cross functional teams. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously. Strong analytical skills are required.


About the team
B2B Payments Finance offers a rich learning experience and an opportunity to develop professionally. We are a young business that will challenge you to weigh in on decisions that have long-term strategic importance and to produce insightful analytics that help us accelerate growth. You will work closely with business partners and get exposure to senior leaders while you become a subject matter expert. We are looking for an individual who can influence business partners to drive results and who welcomes the challenge of building structure while supporting high growth in a fledgling organization with senior management visibility.

- 5 years of multiple finance and accounting roles 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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 5 years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- Bachelors degree in accounting finance business or related field

- 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 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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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 - 95400.00 - 163200.00 USD annually