DESCRIPTION Amazon's "Last Mile" delivery service is responsible for delivering packages (and smiles) to households/businesses across the planet. Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while building a portfolio of delivery stations, vans, and technology to deliver customers' packages on time - often next day, sometimes faster. We augment our traditional "deliver by van" with other models including Amazon Flex (gig economy drivers), Amazon Lockers, and more - all designed to deliver smiles to our customers. You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet.
AMZL Central Finance seeks a Finance Manager to lead and oversee critical planning and controllership functions in the Delivery Station Fixed cost space as part of the Fixed Cost team. The Fixed Cost Team is focused on improving the overall delivery station network through designing cost effective strategies, driving continuous process improvements, supporting strategic decision making and automating financial modeling and reporting. AMZL Fixed Cost provides opportunities, and the scope, to grow your career as you engage in one of the many facets of this world-class delivery service.
This role partners closely with a broad range of finance and operations leaders who share a common goal of delivering the Best-in-Class delivery experience. The role works with stakeholders and business partners, often engaging with teams such as, Supply Chain, Category Procurement, Controllership Finance, Real Estate, Fintech and FP&A. This role designs, develops, and maintains performance measurements and reports on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.
The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they influence business owners, effectively lead meetings with senior leaders, support thoughtful decision-making, adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment, and collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon through excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that affect company-wide strategic decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Utilizes financial systems and advanced BI reporting tools to optimize decision making with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
- Demonstrated ability to root cause issues quickly and uncover core issues using data, then assist, consult with, and teach the business how decisions affect costs or plan in the network and create new mechanisms, as they are needed.
- Expertise in collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data to create meaningful analysis to support business improvements through cost optimization. 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 an automated solution.
- Lead standardization of network processes to promote consistent and accurate financial reporting including mechanisms to drive adoption. Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, or simplify finance processes.
- Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with your business partners and influence decisions.
- Leverage cross-functional partnerships with Controllership Finance, Supply Chain, Fintech and FP&A to drive network projects.
- 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.
- 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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bellevue, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)
- 5+ years of finance experience, or Master's degree and 3+ years of finance experience
