We are seeking a Finance Manager with strong financial analysis background to provide support for the Contribution Profit (CP) product owned by Profit Intelligence (PI), which is part of Selling Partner Services (SPS) organization. SPS are responsible for several key elements of Amazon’s flywheel: which ensure low prices for our Customers, provide a rich tool kit for our Selling Partners to work with Amazon; drive traffic and increase conversion through replenishment and promotion programs; and drive profitability and controllership initiatives to lower our cost structure. PI develops systems and mechanisms that deliver profitability metrics, insights and automated decision-making for the WW Consumer businesses and flywheel; such as Historical Contribution Profit (HCP), Forecasted Contribution Profit( FLCP), Fortune, Turismo. CP provides item-level profitability metrics for each item shipped and is used in both managerial reporting and automated systems across the WW Consumer businesses. CP utilizes economic, financial, and business fundamentals to attribute costs and revenues to millions of shipments a day to drive informed decision-making at many levels.
You will be partnering with operations, finance, accounting business, and technical teams across 14 marketplaces and several businesses to audit, develop, and implement CP allocation methodologies that assign billions of dollars of revenue and cost to items and shipments. As a finance partner, you will own building mechanisms to drive controllership, accuracy, insights and innovation in these products which directly ties to measurable, large scale improvements for the business, finance, sellers and our customers. You will gain experience and help shape the fundamental aspects that drive the Amazon Retail and Seller businesses.
This role operates in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment, and the successful candidate must have the ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, which would include logical reasoning, data analytics and the presentation of alternatives. The successful candidate must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically in an ambiguous environment with many stakeholders and opinions. This individual should possess solid business judgment, strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a strong desire to dive deep into business problems and help solve them.
This role will be a good fit if you:
- are highly analytical and detailed oriented with a passion for diving deep into processes, systems, and data
- create new processes and mechanisms to drive controllership on inputs and outputs of the business
- technically savvy and excited about partnering with a technical team to solve large scale, impactful problems
- able to communicate complex issues in a clear and concise way
- thrive in fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations and are able to multi task with several priorities
- have solid conceptual thinking and problem solving skills
- are able to work with large sets of data
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute audit programs on Contribution Profit components and provide detailed findings
- Partner with global, diverse stakeholders to to develop and propose new allocation methodologies for revenues and cost
- Provide validation and impact analysis support for program launches
- Develop and automate governance and financial controllership mechanisms to ensure the accountability, data quality and accuracy through all aspects of the business workflow
- Dive deep into financial statements, build financial bridging and benchmarking to measure accuracy and variance analysis using Cognos TM1
- Identify automation and tooling opportunities to drive efficiency and improvements in the audit and allocation processes
- Ability to gather, reconcile and analyze very large datasets through SQL and other analytical tools
- Identify and communicate key metrics, achievements, and opportunities and understand the needs of our customers and users to drive product enhancements
- Project management experience and ability to prioritize enhancements, features, and projects
- Facilitate financial review meetings with cross-functional business, technical, and senior management
About the team
PBMS Finance is the primary finance partner for CP products (HCP and FLCP) and all customer facing analytical tools within Profit Intelligence (Phoenix) and Chronicle products (Fortune, Turismo, Overwatch and CP to P&L bridging). These tools drive critical decisions such as pricing, selection and key business insights for Amazon and power Amazon's flywheel.
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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 7+ 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
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.