Regional Finance Business Partner, MEATR Finance

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A global e-commerce leader in Dubai is seeking a Finance Manager to lead financial planning and analysis for its growing marketplaces. This role involves collaborating with senior leaders to drive cost-effective strategies, enhance financial controls, and deliver impactful insights. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of relevant experience in finance, a strong track record of stakeholder management, and a relevant advanced degree. This position is office-based, requiring a dynamic and analytical approach.

Qualifications

• 7 years of finance or related analytical field experience.
• Experience with financial performance indicators and analysis.
• Proven record of solving complex business challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional planning and performance reviews for programs.
• Deliver meaningful insight and financial reporting to senior management.
• Build processes and tools to improve decision-making.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data interpretation

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Forecasting

Education

MBA

CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Oracle

Job description

Amazon is looking for a Finance Manager to partner with senior business leadership and stakeholders responsible for our fast growing marketplaces in the MEATR region. As a finance leader you will be expected to push a high control environment, drive innovation in both the business and finance processes, perform financial evaluation of programs and initiatives, lead business performance reviews as well as provide a long-term vision for creating successful businesses that deliver a strong financial performance whilst not compromising on customer experience and trust.

In this role you will be expected to drive relationships with Senior Business Leaders, Program owners, WW and Regional Finance leaders. You will take the finance lead for all initiatives, planning processes and metrics for periodic reviews, keeping customer experience front of mind, driving cost out initiatives touching all aspects of the value chain. You will help the business to deliver ambitious growth targets, benchmark performance with other marketplaces and establish plans and forecasts. You will continuously audit business inputs and processes to ensure that strong financial controls remain fit for purpose. You will be required to dive deep into every aspect of the business to drive improvement and use data and strong business judgement to drive the right long‑term decisions.

You will lead the effort to develop tools that deliver insightful analysis and reporting to support decision‑making and monitor performance. You will be skilled in extracting insights from large volumes of data and effectively communicate with your business partners on how to act on these insights. You will be working closely with senior leadership in the region and expected to interact with Finance teams across other Emerging Stores and other finance functions (example Accounting and FP&A).

The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast‑paced dynamic environment, be a creative and analytical problem solver with a history of strong leadership skills in managing stakeholders and driving results. As an Amazon employee you will be expected to fulfill the Amazon motto to Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History. This position is office‑based. Amazon encourages open communication about unique needs for flexible arrangements.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead Regional planning and performance reviews for the country and programs you are responsible for.
• Create and build models to manage and deliver the plan for growth and profitability. Hold teams accountable for their designed KPIs.
• Deliver meaningful insight and practical recommendations in addition to sound financial data analysis to inform and influence business decisions.
• Deliver accurate financial information and key financial reporting to senior management including spends, ROIs, performance by channels and category.
• Represent Finance in MBRs, QBRs with narrative on performance.
• Evaluation of Initiatives: Analyze various initiatives agreed with Category, Country and program teams. Identify and document learnings and share with the teams for better planning.
• Work on attribution models to allocate spends by channel, product line and programs.
• Build processes, tools, dashboards to support the business and improve decision‑making.
• Understand the inherent limitations of data and exercise judgement to make trade‑offs between timeliness and accuracy of analysis and how to best synthesize findings.
• Work with product managers to influence new program requirements and business decisions.

Qualifications

• 7 years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• 7 years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
• 7 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analysis experience
• 7 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision‑making experience
• 7 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 7 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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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