Finance Manager, Amazon Robotics Finance

About the role

Amazon’s North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to be a trusted finance partner supporting operational and functional leaders. Amazon operates the most complex retail networks in the world, delivering billions of packages to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses annually. Come be part of this tremendous organization and join a dedicated team committed to operational and financial excellence where you will focus on the inputs, think like an owner, and where every day is Day One.

Responsibilities

• Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with little guidance, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results and drive improvements.
• Partner with the Regional Finance Manager to develop and execute weekly and monthly financial reviews, forecasting, and reporting models, and drive their continuous innovation while communicating insights to Financial and Operations partners.
• Identify and solve complex data integrity issues, collaborating with stakeholders on resolution while insisting on the highest standards.
• Identify the need for improved controls to address risk driven by business, industry, policy, and regulatory changes, and proactively propose control solutions.
• Create effective business partnerships, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance during unexpected events.
• Identify and implement opportunities to resolve finance issues, improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes across teams and organizations.
• Understand how data flows through financial platforms, know the right data to use for analysis, and establish a source of truth.
• Simplify and centralize process improvement and reporting to allow business partners and customers to take action quickly.
• Solve complex problems affecting company-wide strategic decision-making, lead through ambiguity, identify high-priority work to maximize results for key stakeholders, design and implement new financial reporting/modeling, and find creative solutions utilizing large-scale data mining tools.
• Take part in hiring and developing activities and mentor new team members.
• Seek, value, and leverage diverse perspectives.
• Challenge business partner plans and assumptions when needed.
• Communicate data in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both verbally and in writing, articulating complex finance issues to non-Finance partners.
• Positively contribute to work/life harmony on your team and find creative solutions to solve gaps for your team.

About the team

NACF Finance Network Teams: Amazon Robotics Sortable (ARS) – ARS are highly productive fulfillment centers where items are stored in AR Pods moved by robots to the associate's position, eliminating the need for associates to walk to pick products. The primary functions of an ARS include receiving items, stowing them, picking them from the robotic floor, and packing them for shipment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience.
• Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, determining the root cause, and creating/implementing an escalation plan.
• 6+ years of experience 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).
• MBA or CPA.
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.