Finance Manager, MENA Finance

Amazon Inc.; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 420,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's MENA Finance team seeks a Finance Manager to own the financial controls, planning processes, and analytical frameworks across the region, partnering with senior leadership to drive growth and profitability.

You'll build robust planning and reporting, automate management reporting, and lead long and short-term cycles while collaborating with cross-functional teams globally to allocate resources efficiently.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial controls, approval mechanisms, and reporting processes to manage day-to-day business profitability.
• Develop financial plans for short and long-term planning cycles, aligning inputs with senior stakeholders across the region and globally.
• Design and automate management reporting tools, working with business intelligence teams to simplify and standardise processes.
• Analyse financial and operational data to identify growth and efficiency opportunities, presenting findings to senior leadership to drive decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with business teams to provide financial guidance, lead analytical projects, and support strategic planning.

Skills

Financial analysis

KPI development

Data storytelling

Cross-functional partnering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or related field

MBA or CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Job Description :

Amazon's MENA business is growing rapidly, and the financial decisions made today will shape its trajectory for years to come. As a Finance Manager within the MENA Finance team, you will own the financial controls, planning processes, and analytical frameworks that give senior leadership the visibility they need to make confident, data-backed decisions on growth and profitability. You will build and maintain robust planning and reporting processes - from automating management reporting to leading short and long-term financial planning cycles - while acting as a trusted business partner to cross-functional teams across the region and globally. Your analysis will directly inform how the business allocates resources, identifies efficiency opportunities, and responds to a complex and fast-moving market.

Key job responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial controls, approval mechanisms, and reporting processes to manage day-to-day business profitability.
• Develop financial plans for short and long-term planning cycles, aligning inputs with senior stakeholders across the region and globally.
• Design and automate management reporting tools, working with business intelligence teams to simplify and standardise processes.
• Analyse financial and operational data to identify growth and efficiency opportunities, presenting findings to senior leadership to drive decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with business teams to provide financial guidance, lead analytical projects, and support strategic planning.

A day in the life

On a typical day, you might start by reviewing financial performance metrics to identify where the business is tracking ahead or behind plan, then spend time deep-diving into the data to understand the drivers. You'll build or refine a financial model to support an upcoming planning cycle, before joining a cross-functional meeting to present your findings and challenge assumptions with senior business partners. Later, you might review a team member's analysis, giving guidance on a complex or ambiguous area before wrapping up by progressing one of several analytical projects you're running in parallel. Travel to other sites across the region is occasionally required.

About the team

The MENA Finance team sits at the centre of one of Amazon's most dynamic and fast-growing regions. The team works closely with business partners across the region and globally, combining rigorous financial analysis with a deep understanding of local market complexity. You'll join a team that asks hard questions of the data, moves quickly, and holds a high bar for the quality of its work.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making 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)
• MBA, or CPA

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