Finance Manager, WW Grocery Stores FP&A

How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with disrupting a trillion dollar industry?The Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) FP&A organization is dedicated to working closely with the business leadership team to formulate the medium to long term financial and strategic plans for grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon. We seek to increase efficiency and profitability by analyzing financial and operational results to better understand business performance and communicate results to senior management.As we continue to grow, we are looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon and within the broader WWGS Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams, to lead new programs and initiatives, and to manage larger teams within the company.We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our team! This role directly supports the senior leadership team within WW Grocery Stores and will have broad responsibilities, including supporting our established business i.e. Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go on financial reporting, analyses and planning cycles as well as various strategic projects. This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across our organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. The leader must be effective at working through teams across the WW Grocery Stores organization to consolidate and articulate the overall drivers of current and future performance. That means the leader is good at stitching together multiple inputs to tell an accurate and insightful story of what’s happening. Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are a self-starter, they collaborate and influence business partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment and think long-term.Key job responsibilities- Partner with Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go FP&A teams to drive improved/automated financial reporting and planning processes.- Build models that help us track current financial performance and forecast future periods.- Develop new reporting and processes for Free Cash Flow and Cost to Serve across each of the Grocery businesses.- Drive strategic initiatives across WW Grocery businesses - Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go.- Support WW Amazon Stores Finance (IPAT) and Corporate FP&A to communicate WW Grocery Stores plans to Amazon's top leadership.- Work cross functionally with finance teams and senior leadership on ad-hoc analyses and deep dives.- Communicate financial and business results and plans, including variance analyses to senior leaders.- Create an environment that facilitates the development of challenging goals, business plans and financial plans and then help the business achieve these results.- Simplifying and automating planning tools and process across WW Grocery Stores.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 ...

Finance Manager, Amazon Business Finance

Entering the business to business (B2B) market is one of Amazon’s most exciting growth opportunities and since launching in 2015, Amazon Business (AB) already has more than 6 million customers WW. We are growing fast, and require talented finance professionals to help us scale. Amazon Business is hiring a Finance Manager to support the WW Small Business team. You will partner with key business leaders to identify opportunities to drive growth, provide timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership. This role will lead the finance activities, create scalable reporting mechanism and analysis including creating new frameworks required to grow Small Business spend. AB Finance offers a rich learning experience and an opportunity to develop professionally. We are a young business, and you will be challenged to weigh in on decisions that have long-term strategic impact, and to produce insightful analytics that help us accelerate growth. You will work closely with business partners and get exposure to senior leaders, and become a subject matter expert. We are looking for individuals who can engage business partners to drive results and who welcome the challenge of building structure and supporting high growth.Key job responsibilities- Serve as the Finance Business Partner to the Small Business customer segment. Partner with key stakeholders across the US, EU and JP.- Solve complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, business insights, and recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders- Own the top-line forecast model and lead quarterly forecasting process across WW Small Business Finance- Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives- Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc data analysis, and financial modeling using a broad range of tools including Excel, SQL, and CognosBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BS or BA in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g. Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience OR Master's degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Finance Manager, FP&A, B2B Payments

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.We are seeking a highly motivated FP&A leader that will support our B2B Payments businesses. The FP&A leader is responsible for providing thought leadership for the various financial planning cycles, driving insights on business performance, and drive automation and process improvement opportunities.The FP&A leader will work closely with business leaders to drive conversations about performance, as well as make recommendations to improve profitability. This will include developing mechanisms to monitor and track team productivity, ensuring optimal discretionary spending, and adherence to financial targets. This role will liaise with a number of finance teams across Amazon Payments, so this leader should be able to work well with cross functional teams. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.About B2B Payments:Entering the business to business (B2B) market is one of Amazon’s most exciting growth opportunities and since launching in 2015, The B2B Payments team is focused on building tailored payment products that enable AB’s customers to enjoy a seamless purchasing experience. We are growing fast and require a talented finance professional to help us scale world-wide as we are launching a number of exciting new products and services.Key job responsibilities• Maintain, and improve, existing finance processes to ensure high degree of data integrity, and insightful analysis.• Presentation of findings and recommendations to Senior Business Leaders, and Amazon Payments Finance• Manage and develop scalable financial tools or reports that align, and simplify, monthly business reviews, annual planning, and forecasting processes• Assist in developing monthly/quarterly financial reporting (actual and forecast) and annual budgeting• Provide fact-based insights into variances and trendsKey job responsibilities- Maintain, and improve, existing finance processes to ensure high degree of data integrity, and insightful analysis.- Presentation of findings and recommendations to Senior Business Leaders, and Consumer Payments Finance- Manage and develop scalable financial tools or reports that align, and simplify, monthly business reviews, annual planning, and forecasting processes- Assist in developing monthly/quarterly financial reporting (actual and forecast) and annual budgeting- Provide fact-based insights into variances and trendsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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 ...

Finance Manager, S3/Glacier Finance

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud services? ​Join us at AWS Finance! AWS Service Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to support cost and capacity in the Object Storage (S3) business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform. AWS S3 Finance seeks a world class Finance Manager to be a key member of its team. This position will work closely with key business partners to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership in the S3 services space.Some key responsibilities will include:- Drive controllership by managing capital spend reporting, tracking KPI’s, and performing variance analysis.- Develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.- Closely partner with S3 business team to drive capacity efficiency improvement. - Taking the lead in financial planning and analysis; building complex financial models and analytical tools to set and track overall financial performance against goals. - Be a thought leader to improve and simplify processes, drive standardization, and build scalable solutions to support business growth.This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. This role has regular interaction with various business teams and requires strong people skillsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Financial Analyst, Ad Sales Finance - Pricing & Yield

The Financial Analyst position supports the video ads program, one of Amazon’s most visible and fastest growing initiatives. A successful candidate will collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to create the tools, reporting, and analytics necessary to assess the pricing performance of our video ad products. Additional responsibilities include supporting the needs of sales teams via pricing exceptions, creating advertiser and agency facing rate cards, and creating and monitoring promotional offerings to help match demand with supply.Key job responsibilities• Reports to the Finance Manager, Ad Pricing & Yield partnering with product and sales managers across amazon Video Ad products. • Supports rate card creation and rate database maintenance, requiring strong organizational skills and attention to detail• Supports reporting needs of the business from a pricing and yield perspective• Inventory analysis across ad publishers to inform pricing and discounting decisions• Close partnership with ad operations teams to support campaign launch and management from a pricing and monetization perspectiveAbout the teamThe Financial Analyst - Ads Pricing & Yield position sits within the Ad Sales Finance organization. This role specifically supports the Video Ads portfolio and reports to the Manager, Ad Sales Finance - Pricing & Yield.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 1+ years of finance experience- 1+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field ...

Senior Financial Analyst , Echo Sales and Marketing

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative, creative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. Amazon seeks an experienced Financial Analyst to play a key role on our Amazon Devices Finance team. Job responsibilities include: - Short and long-term financial planning - Building financial models, tracking actuals, and explaining variances - Developing scalable and efficient processes to support financial reporting - Establishing and maintaining operation and business metrics - Providing analytical support - Presenting financial models to senior management The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong data gathering and modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment. This role also has regular interaction with various business owners and finance across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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 ...

Senior Financial Analyst, International Seller Services

More than 300 million customers shop in Amazon’s store, and every day, customers browse, purchase, and review products sold by third-party sellers right alongside products sold by Amazon. Since 2000, Amazon has offered this virtual shelf space to individuals and companies of all sizes, helping them reach hundreds of millions of customers, build their brands, and grow their business. Fast-forward to the present day, and these third-party seller products account for more than half of all units sold in our store. This is an exciting opportunity to create and innovate in Marketplace, one of the core pillars of Amazon. The International Seller Services (ISS) Finance team is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support Financial Planning & Analysis business support functions for the international third party (3P) business on Amazon. Sellers are the life blood of our Marketplace business and new sellers make up a significant portion of both the active seller base and selection contribution. We rely on new Sellers to bring our customers more selection, lower pricing, and better experience. International Seller Services focuses on recruiting 3P sellers and helping them grow their business on Amazon, either through their own logistic networks or leveraging Amazon's global fulfillment and customer service network. We place great focus on building a healthy Seller business which determines the future and potential of Amazon's 3P business.As a member of this team, you will leverage analytical, technical, and communication skills to drive worldwide projects, engineer ad-hoc financial analyses, support business planning, and implement ideas for process improvement. The ideal candidate will have a growth mindset, be comfortable with healthy respectful debate, and be skilled at earning trust across both finance and business teams.Key job responsibilities• Maintain and improve existing finance processes to ensure data integrity, efficient analyses, and insightful analysis• Collaborate with key stakeholders worldwide to drive global standardization of metric and reporting definitions• Manage and develop scalable financial tools that align and simplify monthly business reviews, annual planning, and forecasting processes• Sourcing, analyzing, and reporting quantitative data; perform ad-hoc analysesBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Manager, Accounts Receivable, FinOps Support Center - HQ2

We are Amazon’s Finance Operations Services organization (FinOps) and responsible for Amazon’s Accounts Payables (AP) and Receivables (AR) Teams. We ensure on-time, accurate payments, billings and collections on behalf of North American Business Channels. If motivating effective teams, raising the bar by diving deep into data, and driving process improvements are your key attributes, then Amazon’s Finance Operations Accounts Receivable team has the perfect role for you.We are seeking a hands-on-team leader to spearhead an Accounts Receivable team that drives operational excellence and delivers measurable business impact. The ideal candidate will have excellent program management, problem solving and communication skills, and be effective interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. The candidate will work directly with customers and their management tools, processes, and mechanisms, as well as, Amazon internal stakeholders and fulfillment operations to scale our growing business and address outstanding payment and billing questions and issues. This leader will also generate and leverage insights based on Amazon’s unique data and metrics to lead strategic discussions with Financial Operations business teams to support FinOps leaders on making informed decisions. This role is based in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy-efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth, including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.Key job responsibilities• Work with cross functional team of accounts receivable (AR) analysts in collaboration with upstream business, operations, and technology teams to integrate scalable end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes and solutions.• Set and execute business objectives.• Validate, monitor, and deliver on key success metrics, and execute on delivery roadmaps.• Partner with senior leaders to drive strategic initiatives for long-term success• Execute accurate financial reporting and planning, tracking performance, and providing recommendations for corrective actions• Obsess on customer service and train new hires to do the same by establishing the Amazon Day 1 Culture based on our Leadership Principles.• Systemically intake, escalate, and triage vendor payments (payables and billings) contacts and issues and follow-through to resolution, including executive-level communication.• Recognize escalation trends and identify underlying defects and root causes.• Partner with and influence business partners and other teams to resolve defects.• Identify and implement best practices to streamline the P2P and O2C processes.• Leverage data from numerous databases and internal tools (using Excel, SQL, or other data management systems) to perform reporting and analysis.• Communicate directly with vendors to resolve invoice and billing discrepancies and ensure timely and accurate receivables.• Research P2P and O2C issues to identify and resolve process challenges and defects.• Educate internal and external customers on self-service tools.• Work across worldwide time zones as needed. NOTE: This role requires working from the Arlington, VA Office 5 days per week and is non-negotiable. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience- 3+ years of Accounts Receivable (AR) experience- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 3+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience ...

Finance Manager, Stores Tech Finance FP&A

Do you want to be at the intersection of Amazon Retail, AWS, and the development of eCommerce? Amazon seeks a Finance Manager to join the Stores Tech Finance team. This is an exciting and highly visible opportunity to interact with business and finance leaders across World Wide Stores with the focus on improving efficiency, standardizing forecasting and planning practices, breaking down silos, simplifying processes, automating reporting through leveraging new tools. The role will drive better controllership, provide meaningful insights, and reduce overall costs across eCF, Shopping, and Central Econ pillars. The Finance Manager will own the overall consolidation, analysis, synthesis and reporting of eCF, Shopping and Core AI’s financial performance to leadership and to Worldwide Amazon Stores. The role also includes defining metrics to run the business, creating solutions for process improvement and writing documents for VP and SVP reviews. Key job responsibilities- Own the financial planning and reporting processes at Stores Tech Leadership Team (STLT) level for Shopping/eCF providing IMR MBR commentary, Month End Close & Guidance commentary. - Drive opportunities for improvement of Cost to Service across the organization (Shopping/eCF).- Partner with Fleet Finance Leads to improve, standardize, and automate the metrics, dashboards, and reporting in line with strategic initiatives driven by the Central IMR team (Tech ROI framework, Service level IMR, Weblab, Attribution models, etc.).- Influence business decisions with executive leaders through financial modeling, metrics, and reporting.- Collaborate with central finance teams (e.g., FP&A, Corporate Controller) to align on financial policies, processes, and reporting standards, ensuring consistency across the organization.- Conduct financial analysis and modeling to support strategic decision-making, such as evaluating new initiatives, investments, or organizational changes.- Provide financial training and guidance to business partners and stakeholders, fostering financial literacy and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.- Monitor and analyze key financial metrics, performance indicators, and variances, providing insights and recommendations to leadership.- Participate in cross-functional initiatives and projects related to financial systems, data management, and analytics to drive continuous improvement.- Lead reporting for GPU MBR for Shopping/eCF (includes improving tracking mechanisms)A day in the lifeWe seek a Finance Manager with strong quantitative and financial skills, sound business judgment, the ability to solve complex problems, and effective verbal and written communication. The successful candidate will work across teams within tight deadlines, project manage the financial cycles, and consolidate financial commentaries to provide insights and tell the business story. The Finance Manager will think and act quickly under pressure and manage multiple competing priorities effectively.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 ...

Finance Manager, Training & Certification (T&C) Finance

Amazon seeks a Finance Manager to be a key member in our Training and Certification (T&C) Finance team. T&C’s mission is to cultivate hundreds of millions of highly skilled cloud professionals by offering the leading cloud training and certification programs in the industry. This is an exciting opportunity to join a Finance team that supports a robust business that offers a wide range of initiatives to serve millions of customers around the world, in a role where you will have regular interaction with leaders across the organization. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills, data mining and modeling capabilities, keen attention to detail, sound logical reasoning, and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively. They collaborate with business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. A typical day in this role involves identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, and solving complex problems that impact strategic decisions.Key job responsibilities• Act as the Finance Partner for the Training & Certification (T&C) 3rd Party Delivery (Channel) and AWS Cloud Institute (ACI) businesses.• Work with Business Partners to build business models, pricing strategies, and value propositions and drive near-term and long-term forecasting.• Clearly articulate complex financial data-driven analyses to provide stakeholders with key financial inputs/insights.• Identify opportunities to increase operational efficiency through data, modelling, and analysis. Examples include proactively resolving defects, benchmarking key performance indicators, and developing new metrics.• Manage competing priorities to complete both ad-hoc and strategic projects• Promote a positive and collaborative cultureAbout the teamWe support the Training & Certification (T&C) business, a part of the larger AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services team (SMGS). We provide financial results and insights to Director and VP level executives. Team members are located across the US and we communicate with each other regularly, lending a hand and support with positive, flexible mindsets when priorities shift. We love to learn and encourage open discussion on ways to improve all that we do. We welcome a fresh perspective to help scale with the demands of the growing businesses we support.We are open to hiring candidates in Seattle, WA, Houston, TX, and Arlington, VA.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Principal Finance Manager, Commercial Sector, Amazon Business, US CPS

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion dollar global business. Amazon Business (AB) seeks a Principal Finance Manager to support its fast-paced Commercial Sector business. This business partnership role will be responsible for shaping growth strategy with business insights, defining goals for profitable growth, executing topline and P&L controllership, financial assessment of multi-million-dollar deals.Key job responsibilitiesThe successful candidate will need to lead and coordinate with the business team full financial planning cycle, develop deep understanding of business drivers and incorporate them into financial modeling. The role will partner with business to develop high velocity industry growth strategies, new metrics to target business results, and build & automate new reporting to allow business track progress against these metrics. The role will need to build ROI analysis of bespoke customer deals and communicate to US CPS and AB leadership, as well as track the actuals results of deal launches. The role will be engaged into development of new programs and sales motions to accelerate growth.The role requires high degree of learn and be curious to understand needs of our customers, and bias for action to navigate in the start-up-like, ambiguous customer facing environment. The role will be responsible to execute on one or several cross-CPS SMEship projects and analysis, with broad scope and visibility to AB senior leadership. Finally, this role requires the capability to clearly articulate the financial aspects and takeaways of their analyses to influence senior leaders.A day in the life- Serve as the Business Partner for the Commercial business segment, driving profitable topline growth- Support Financial Planning and Analysis cycle including: Topline & P&L OP1 & OP2 planning, Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews with AB leadership- Engage with business and partner teams across ComSec Sales, AB WW FP&A, Go-To-Market Sales Operations teams, AB Managed Spend Teams to develop insights and influence initiatives- Influence business decisions through effective verbal and written communication with senior leaders, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives using a broad range of tools including Excel, SQL, and CognosAbout the teamAmazon Business is a B2B marketplace on Amazon.com that gives businesses of all sizes access to hundreds of millions of products in a shopping experience built for businesses.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's Degree ...

Finance Manager - Finance Operations Business Partnership, North America Retail

The Finance Operations Business Partnership (BP) team is seeking a Finance Manager who will be a key member of the Worldwide Retail BP team. This individual will be responsible for driving worldwide Retail procure-to-pay and order-to-cash performance. In this role, you will responsible for developing and maintaining operational and business metrics and targets, driving global operational reviews, as well as owning improvements to achieve targets. As a business partner, you will work daily alongside Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Service Centers, Vendor Managers, Retail Finance, Vendors, and other operational groups at all levels in a global environment. Complex problem solving and financial analysis skills are required to manage multiple high visibility priorities in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations. Responsibilities: - Define key performance indicators – develop operational and business metrics and service level agreements for programs and processes, and track delivery against global objectives. - Consolidate inputs, and challenge assumptions, on performance drivers and projections from stakeholders - Develop and maintain effective partnership between Finance Operations, Service Centers and Retail. - Identify and drive opportunities for improved cash flow, margin or productivity improvements related to vendor payments and receivables. - Solve critical vendor, process and system escalations effectively to ensure root cause analysis and effective problem resolution. - Identify and quantify financial and operational risks and opportunitiesBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa Finance - Insights, Planning, Econometrics, Decision (IPED)

Amazon seeks an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on the Alexa Insights, Planning, Econometrics and Decision (IPED) team owning Alexa financial key performance indicators (KPIs) and executive metrics dashboards. This role will be responsible for defining KPIs, conducting trends analysis, proposing guardrails and implementing mechanisms to allow business leaders to adhere to those guardrails at scale. The successful candidate will build scalable analyses, build KPI dashboards, shape the trajectory of the business by implementing a mechanism to adhere to defined guardrails. This position will work closely with Alexa Finance and business leadership to gain alignment on KPIs, guardrails and providing regular progress updates on both. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and dynamic businesses. This role requires someone to be a strategic thinker, analytical, detail oriented, team player, and clear communicator and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage the responsibilities of a fast-paced and complex business.Key job responsibilities- Define KPIs that incorporate value and investment levers across the Alexa P&L- Influence the definition of guardrails to manage investment decisions based on return forecasted- Build Page 0 metrics across the Alexa business to publish monthly in the Finance reports that informs prioritization decisions based on actuals vs. forecasts, trends and guardrails - Work with big data and transform it into insights and informationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree ...

Senior Financial Analyst, EC2 Core Finance

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Come join Amazon Web Services Finance! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world.Key job responsibilitiesAWS Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support the fastest-growing EC2 GenAI businesses. This role is critical in not only addressing financial deliverables (Weekly Business Review, Monthly Financial Reviews, Operating Plans, pricing/discounts, etc.) but also driving the business to find efficiencies to grow profit. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively and manage multiple time sensitive deliverables across a matrixed organization. The individual will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders.A day in the lifeServe as the key business partner working directly with AWS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations. Build financial models for new business concepts, make analytical judgments, and deliver data intensive analyses to drive meaningful change. Present financial summary and business insights to the business and finance leadership. Develop and standardize financial reporting packages. Drive continuous improvements in profitability, free cash flow, and operational efficiency.About the teamThis role will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including Product Managers, Engineers and GMs, to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership. This role requires a self-starter and independent individual with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience- 3+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis- 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)- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

AWS Global Cash App Lead, Global Accounts Receivable - Cash Application

Are you passionate around developing new and innovative processes that combine finance, operations excellence and technology to drive improvement? Have you led large cross-functional projects to increase efficiency and accuracy and reduce waste? If so, the Finance Operations team is the place for you. Our priority is to identify, scope, and deliver upstream systems and process improvements which reduce operating expense, increase free cash flow, improve customer experience and establish first pass yield process efficiencies.The Global Accounts Receivable (GAR) team is seeking a passionate and energetic Cash Application expert to help achieve our vision to provide world-class Order-to-Cash (O2C) experience to our internal and external customers in support of Amazon’s journey to become earth’s most customer-centric company. The AWS Global Cash App Lead must be strategic and detail oriented, have strong accounting and finance skills, robust interpersonal and influencing skills, strong organizational and project management skills, and the ability to gather business and technical requirements across global teams to drive systems and change management processes. This person will need to roll up his/her sleeves, work independently, and have an extremely high level of ownership and ability to dive deep.This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.Responsibilities include:* Standardize and improve processes across all sites to align teams to a Global Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).*Resolve cash app escalations promptly to maintain customer satisfaction and maintain AWS financial integrity. Identify prevention measures to eliminate gaps within cash processes.* Conduct deep dives and audits of cash app processes to identify improvement areas, and provide feedback for goal achievement.* Collaborate with training team to build and maintain training infrastructure, facilitating efficient onboarding for new hires and consistent skill development for current cash analysts across all sites.* Collaborate with Launch and Tech teams for new product or SOR launches impacting cash application systems.* Collaborate with tech teams to review, prioritize, and develop system enhancement requests for cash application systems to resolve critical cash application pain points. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 5+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience- 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- Bachelor's degree ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Global Realty Finance

Amazon operates a world-class network of large, technologically advanced fulfillment centers across the world. The Global Realty (GR) Team is responsible for acquisition and management of facilities across the Amazon Fulfillment Network. In support of GR, our team is looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. You will be responsible for investment analysis, creation of financial models, assessing alternative financing options and providing thorough data-driven recommendations. This role will partner closely with a broad range of Finance and business leaders in Operations, Engineering, and Technology. This role will be involved in Site Selection Analysis and Real Estate Capital Appropriation Requests that involve DCF financial modeling and advanced financial skills. The successful candidate will have demonstrated an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment.Key job responsibilities- Develop financial analysis, including Net Present Value (NPV) models, to assess viability of real estate investment projects, network expansion, and strategic acquisitions within the Customer Fulfillment Network.- Partner with Global Realty, Construction, Engineering and Capital Planning teams to obtain model input variables. Identify inconsistent or inaccurate data and escalate discrepancies. - Financially value concepts from incremental design improvements to fully-fledged future generation Fulfillment Centers as part of the change management process by partnering with Building and Engineering Design teams.- Provide narrative for capital approvals with thorough financial analysis of cost savings for construction projections and communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. - Improve tools and processes, scale existing solutions, and create new solutions based on stakeholder needs.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Finance Manager, North America Sort Centers

North American Sort Centers (NASC) are looking for a bar raising manager to help drive the investment strategy for our multibillion-dollar transportation network. NASC is part of the Amazon transportation organization which enables next day free delivery for Prime members and 7 days a week delivery for our customers. Every day several million packages from multiple fulfillment centers across the US and Canada arrive in one of the ~100 sort centers where they are sorted to specific last mile delivery locations, in effect consolidating volumes going to the same place, which improves truck utilization and reduces transportation costs. Since launching operations in 2013, we have provided billions of dollars of savings to Amazon, improved shipping times for our customers and enabled delivery 7 days a week - our growing presence in logistics space led Amazon to be one of the top 5 logistic operators on the planet.The NASC team based in Bellevue, WA is responsible for the FP&A, investment strategy and new transportation initiatives for this operation. This is an exciting opportunity to partner cross-functionally to ensure proper controllership, informed decision making, innovation and sustainability in processes for a growing network. Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.Key job responsibilities- This role directly impacts the decision on billions of dollars of investments in Amazon transportation infrastructure. A successful candidate effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful recommendations, and manages competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. The candidate should demonstrate amazing analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguity and strong analytical and verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with worldwide operations leadership is common.- Partner with peers in engineering, real estate and procurement to collect key information to estimate investments in additional transportation capacity, and the return over this investment.- Lead the development of financial models and supporting documentation to formalize investment decisions with Amazon leaders.- Design and build processes that improve the level of automation and scalability of the aforementioned activities.BASIC 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 ...

Senior Financial Analyst, AWS SMGS FP&A

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Sr. Financial Analyst to be a key member in our AWS Sales & Marketing FP&A team. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of our fastest growing business division within Amazon. As a Finance Manager, you will work closely with finance leaders to develop financial models and analytical insights to assist in evaluating new business concepts, turning insights into operational measurements, and identifying paths to improve overall planning and forecasting process. Key job responsibilitiesYou will be the single threaded finance owner for the top-line performance for AWS. Primary responsibilities include:• Develop revenue forecasts in collaboration with key stakeholders • Create, improve, and maintain financial metrics, reports and scorecards used for consolidation reports.• Collect, analyze and manage quantitative data to create meaningful analyses and models that drive business decisions.• Lead processes to facilitate consolidation process and reports.• Partner with finance technology and BI team to streamline reporting infrastructure and automation• Lead month end close deep dives and consolidationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience ...

Sr Tax Analyst, Americas Tax Controversy

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Analyst to join our growing Americas Tax Controversy Team! The Americas Tax Controversy Team is directly responsible for Canada (direct tax), US IRS, and audits in various LatAm jurisdictions. This role will focus on LatAm and as needed on our US/CAN issues. The Americas Tax Controversy Team is looking for candidates who can operate in a dynamic environment and will roll up their sleeves to deliver accurate results on multiple projects with competing deadlines. This role will require interacting with other members of the Amazon tax team handling various tax issues including transfer pricing, international tax issues, VAT compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and tax compliance. Key job responsibilitiesPrimary responsibilities will include:- Preparing, planning and coordinating responses to information document requests, due diligence requests, and other similar inquiries from tax authorities.- Preparing presentations on various tax issues to tax authorities.- Coordinating communications with the Amazon Tax Reporting Team as well as internal tax functional subject matter experts.- Assisting with informational interviews of members in various business teams and functional interviews.- Researching and documenting domestic and international tax issues, from a controversy perspective.- Managing relationships with external advisors on tax controversy matters.- Developing strong working relationships among cross-functional teams, including Legal, Accounting, HR, and other teams.- Implementing and executing organizational processes to help the Tax Controversy Team meet its goal of continuous process improvements related to the team’s objectives.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level- Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience ...

Finance Manager, North America Operations FP&A

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Operations is at the heart of what we do, delivering millions of packages each day and fulfilling customer orders from all over the world. Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager to help lead North America FP&A activities for Amazon Operations – our rapidly expanding internal delivery operation, purpose-built to achieve and exceed the delivery quality and speed demands of Amazon customers. A Finance Manager for North America Operations FP&A will be a finance leader with ownership of HC Management, financial planning and weekly performance and outlook reviews. This individual will provide financial oversight, insightful analysis, resource management and decision support in this rapidly evolving space. The successful candidate will have excellent written communication, leadership, analytical and financial reporting skills. They will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders across North America. The FM will contribute to a high visibility Operations FP&A team supporting the VP of Operations and VP of Finance and ad-hoc projects and analysis as needed. Key job responsibilities- Partner across Finance and Operations to drive continuous improvement in financial planning and operational performance - Manage and lead HC Management for a key Operations business line owning optimal resourcing strategy, planning and close processes - Gather, review, and communicate holistic systems and tools assessment which drive time-savings solutions - Provide support for dive deep analytical projects and executive reviews as needed BASIC 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 ...