Finance Manager, Sort Center Finance - Middle Mile

About the role

The North American Sort Centers are part of Amazon Transportation Services, focusing on next day free delivery for Prime members and seven days a week delivery for customers. This role is responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), investment strategy, and new transportation initiatives for the operation.

Responsibilities

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps
• Delivers weekly/monthly financial performance reports
• Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets
• Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations
• Works with a variety of data sources
• Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner
• Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes
• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently
• Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager
• Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise
• Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team
• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
• 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience
• MBA, or CPA
• 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 5+ 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 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, or experience with documenting accounting conclusions