Sr. Finance Manager, SCOT Finance

About the Team

The Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) team sits at the core of Amazon's global supply chain — determining what inventory to buy, when to buy it, how much to order, and where to position it to delight customers while meeting Amazon's business objectives. Operating at massive scale across hundreds of product lines and billions of dollars of worldwide inventory, SCOT's fully in-house, automated planning and optimization systems are among the most sophisticated in the world. Finance within SCOT is a high-impact function, partnering directly with AI and machine learning engineers, scientists, product managers, and operations leaders to shape strategy, drive investment decisions, and deliver measurable improvements to Amazon's supply chain economics.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead the Inbound Systems Finance team. This role owns the financial strategy and controllership for the autonomous systems that drive inbound decisions including placement, replenishment, transfers and capacity; connects system decisions to financial outcomes, building feedback loops that provide leadership visibility and drive continuous improvement; serves as the cross-functional bridge between SCOT systems, Ops and Finance; partners on transformational initiatives that reshape Amazon's inbound network; engages in AI/ML model design as the financial subject matter expert, ensuring algorithms incorporate appropriate financial inputs; builds and improves metrics and audit mechanisms to evaluate algorithmic decision outcomes; leads, develops, and mentors a team of finance professionals; champions AI adoption across the team and leverages AI tools to accelerate analysis and continuously explore new ways to deliver insights faster.

Key job responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction for Inbound Systems Finance, establishing mechanisms to drive controllership of inbound decisions systems including replenishment, placement, and capacity; Connect system decisions to financial outcomes, building feedback loops that provide leadership visibility and drive continuous improvement
• Serve as the cross-functional bridge between SCOT systems, Ops, and Finance — creating operational discipline for financial planning inputs
• Partner on transformational initiatives that reshape Amazon's inbound network
• Engage in AI/ML model design as the financial subject matter expert, ensuring algorithms incorporate appropriate financial inputs
• Build and improve metrics and audit mechanisms to evaluate algorithmic decision outcomes
• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of finance professionals
• Champion AI adoption across the team and leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and continuously explore new ways to deliver insights faster

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of performing financial and ad hoc analysis using data reporting tools experience
• 10+ years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience
• 8+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 8+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 7+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 10+ members experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience
• 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 8+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 8+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
• 5+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
• MBA, or CPA