Finance Manager, Corporate FP&A, Reporting, Forecasting & Analysis (RFA)

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 to drive cost assignment and allocation to appropriate businesses for each monthly and planning cycle.
• Generate business insights based on financial results and use them to influence strategic decisions being made about the businesses.
• Partner with Accounting 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, performance measurement, and operations cost reduction projects.
• Communicate complex financial insights effectively, in both verbal and written form.
• Ad hoc financial analysis and data support for business teams.

About the team

Corporate FP&A provides strategic support to Amazon’s CFO and executive team on enterprise-wide planning, analysis, and reporting. Our team is responsible for the production and governance of several key finance deliverables. We are a collaborative and forward-thinking finance team dedicated to driving strategic insights and operational excellence. Our vision is to continuously evolve financial processes, empowering business units with robust, actionable financial intelligence. We value innovative thinking, global perspectives, and the ability to translate complex financial data into meaningful business strategies.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• MBA, or CPA
• 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