Finance Manager, MENA Finance

Amazon Inc.; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s MENA finance leadership seeks a Finance Manager to own financial controls, planning cycles, and analytical frameworks that guide regional growth. You will build models, forecasts, and reports connecting operations to financial outcomes, collaborating with global teams to drive efficiency and informed senior-level decisions.

You will lead end-to-end analyses, present findings to leadership, and automate reporting tools while partnering with business owners across functions to scale

Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or related analytical field experience
• 5+ years in multiple finance and accounting roles
• 6+ years applying KPIs to analyses
• 6+ years building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• 6+ years participating in continuous improvement projects to scale controllership
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy

Responsibilities

• Develop short- and long-term financial and operational plans that support business priorities, aligning inputs with senior stakeholders worldwide
• Own mechanisms to inspect growth and profitability, including controllership and approval processes that manage day-to-day performance
• Build financial and operational analysis, forecasts and models that link operational goals to financials and influence senior leadership decisions
• Turn financial data into insights, find efficiency opportunities and present recommendations that drive business action
• Partner across functions with senior business and finance stakeholders, giving strategic guidance, decision support and constructive challenge
• Lead key analytical projects end to end, owning timelines, priorities, quality and issue resolution
• Invent, simplify and automate management reporting and team tools, working with business owners and Business Intelligence teams to standardise processes and share knowledge
• Set up review routines with the local business, including roll-out and training on tools, and help onboard new team members

Skills

Finance analytics

KPI analysis

Financial modeling

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's in Finance

MBA

CPA

Tools

SQL

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

MS Access

Job description

Job Description :

Amazon's MENA business is growing fast, and the financial decisions made today will shape how that growth plays out across the region. As a Finance Manager, you will own the financial controls, planning cycles, and analytical frameworks that keep the business on track - and give senior leaders the insight they need to make confident decisions.

You will build and maintain the models, forecasts, and reporting tools that connect operational performance to financial outcomes, turning complex data into clear recommendations. Working across finance and business functions throughout the region and with global teams, you will identify efficiency opportunities, challenge assumptions, and lead analytical projects end to end - from scoping through to presenting findings to senior leadership.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop short- and long-term financial and operational plans that support business priorities, aligning inputs with senior stakeholders worldwide


• Own mechanisms to inspect growth and profitability, including controllership and approval processes that manage day-to-day performance


• Build financial and operational analysis, forecasts and models that link operational goals to financials and influence senior leadership decisions


• Turn financial data into insights, find efficiency opportunities and present recommendations that drive business action


• Partner across functions with senior business and finance stakeholders, giving strategic guidance, decision support and constructive challenge


• Lead key analytical projects end to end, owning timelines, priorities, quality and issue resolution


• Invent, simplify and automate management reporting and team tools, working with business owners and Business Intelligence teams to standardise processes and share knowledge


• Set up review routines with the local business, including roll-out and training on tools, and help onboard new team members

A day in the life

Your day might start with a deep dive into the previous week's performance data, identifying a variance that needs explaining before a senior leadership review later in the afternoon. Between those two moments, you could be refining a forecast model with a business partner in a different time zone, reviewing an automated report you're building with the business intelligence team, or walking a new team member through a planning tool. No two days look the same - but the thread running through all of them is turning data into decisions that move the MENA business forward.

About the team

The MENA Finance team sits at the centre of one of Amazon's most strategically important growth regions. The team partners closely with business leaders across the region to provide the financial insight and controls that underpin key decisions - from day-to-day performance management to longer-term planning. You will join a team that values rigorous analysis, moves quickly, and is building the financial foundations for a business that is still taking shape. There is real scope here to influence how things get done, not just execute against an established playbook.

Basic 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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience


• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Preferred Qualifications :

• 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


• 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


• MBA, or CPA


• Knowledge of SQL/ETL

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