Strategic Finance Manager: Planning & Growth

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

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.