Finance Manager - Inventory Optimization, SCOT AIM Finance

The Role

We're looking for a Finance Manager who thrives in deep business partnership with senior executives, including Directors and VPs — serving as the financial owner of our Automated Inventory Management portfolio — a suite of systems that determine whether the right inventory is available, in the right place, in the right condition, across Amazon's global fulfillment network.

This role sits at the intersection of finance and AI in supply chain — with high agency, a direct line to the thought leaders defining Amazon's worldwide supply chain strategy, and the autonomy to drive investment decisions as the financial voice shaping how these systems are built, evaluated, and scaled.

You build trust quickly, partner closely with technical and business leaders, and know how to show up as a strategic equal at the table. You're comfortable operating at multiple altitudes — equally at ease with a data model as you are presenting to a VP.

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with Science and Product teams to develop financial strategies and drive controllership across our Automated Inventory Management systems, ensuring technology investments deliver maximum long-term free cash flow and measurable improvements to supply chain efficiency.

• Navigate high degrees of ambiguity to build financial models that evaluate multi-million dollar technology investments and their impact on inventory placement, availability, and cost to serve.

• Conduct rigorous financial assessments of identified inventory defects — including entitlement analysis, estimation accuracy, and opportunity costs — translating findings into measurable P&L impact across the network.

• Build and maintain metrics and audit mechanisms to evaluate algorithmic decision outcomes, flagging when models underperform and surfacing data-driven recommendations to course-correct.

• Develop compelling narratives and financial analyses for executive reviews.

• Leverage AI agents, GenAI assistants, and AI-powered data platforms to accelerate analysis, improve productivity, and continuously explore new ways to deliver higher-quality insights faster.

About The Team

The AIM Finance team is a small, high-impact group embedded within Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies organization. We serve as the financial backbone for some of Amazon's most sophisticated AI-driven systems — covering inventory availability, placement efficiency, selection economics, and inbound performance across global markets.

The team operates with significant autonomy, high senior leadership exposure, and a mandate to think strategically, not just report. We work closely with operations research scientists, product managers, and supply chain leaders — and we actively invest in AI and GenAI tools to raise the quality and speed of our own work.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience

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)
• 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