DESCRIPTION This role partners closely with a broad range of leaders across Amazon Air, providing important financial analysis and controllership to drive decisions. The role focuses on continuous improvement across internal and external stakeholders to define, design and maintain performance measurements, reporting and reviews. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to lead root-cause analysis and uncover core issues to drive cost reductions with stakeholders, manage, evaluate and create meaningful business reporting, and build and maintain complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance.
Key job responsibilities
- Build forecasting models and operating plans to support network growth initiatives and challenge cost assumptions
- Extract, combine, and summarize data to analyze the financial impact of new initiatives, and effectively communicate key findings to senior leadership to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions
- Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced Excel functions to work with large data sets.
- Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
- Work closely with business partners, stakeholders, and other finance teams across transportation to identify and drive cost reduction initiatives
- 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 as an indicator of operations excellence.
About the team
Amazon Air is a global, customer-centric transportation provider that safely delivers low cost, high quality service. We are accomplishing our vision through a talented, inclusive, and diverse team, leveraging innovative technologies and a sustainability-aware mindset! You can "take off" and "soar" your career at Amazon Air.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bellevue, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
