Finance Manager, Amazon Shipping

Finance Manager, Amazon Shipping London, England

Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)
Full Time London, England 64000 - 90000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

  • 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
  • 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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
  • Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel
  • Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
Job summary:
Amazon is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst/Finance Manager for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) finance org, an area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel. This person will be a leader in the Finance organization supporting the business initiatives related to SWA EU. This is a very high impact and high visibility role supporting the growing EU business as it seeks to scale through new marketplaces and demand streams. Person in this role will have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and to lead programs or products.

Who we are:
Amazon’s Marketplace services over 2 million Sellers, disrupting traditional notions of retail marketplace and connecting millions of businesses, big and small, to millions of Amazon Customers. The Marketplace business exceeds 50% of the total Amazon.com sales and each year, tens of thousands of businesses join the marketplace adding millions of new products. Sellers are a critical part of Amazons ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earth’s largest selection, lowest prices, and outstanding delivery experience.

Want to help build the finance team at the world's leading e-commerce company? Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily?

Career Opportunities:
The ideal candidate will be primarily responsible for business partnering, decision support, financial modeling, controllership and operations cost reduction for our EU business, working closely with Product, Tech, Operations and Business Teams, as well as ATS and AMZL Finance teams. This person will partner with multiple stakeholders to provide timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership to this high-growth organization. This role requires extensive cross-functional partnership with various retail, transportation, and finance teams to identify best practices across the network and lead cost improvement efforts for operations. It also requires a self-starter mentality, exceptional stakeholder management capabilities and will stretch your leadership skills while also requiring you to digest the complexity of the Amazon transportation network to deliver process improvement.

Key job responsibilities
  • Drive the core financial processes for the organisation including Annual Operating Plans, 3 year Strategic Plan, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews
  • Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs, and make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure.
  • Partner with senior business leaders and develop operational metrics and goal setting to help the team improve performance
  • Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communications drive critical business decisions.
  • Analyse ROI of different programs/initiatives and generate actionable insights from large amounts of data
  • Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.
  • Exhibit social responsibility. Actively recruit bar-raising talent, continuously develop your team.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

  • 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
  • 6+ 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
  • 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
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel: +448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel: +3531800851489).

Finance Manager, Amazon Shipping
Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)

https://www.aboutamazon.com/
Seattle, United States
Andrew Jassy
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Internet & Web Services
1994
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