Finance Manager, Ireland Store, EU Expansion Finance

Amazon UK; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Finance leader ('CFO') for the EU Expansion Finance team responsible for the Ireland Stores business. This role merges financial acumen and leadership to influence strategic decisions across various marketplaces. It promises a dynamic environment addressing customer experience and profitability challenges while facilitating creative problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or related analytical field required.
• Experience in finance and accounting roles is essential.
• Ability to build financial reports that drive decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Oversee finance topics for the Ireland Stores business.
• Act as a strategic partner supporting multiple Director stakeholders.
• Manage business performance and improve profitability.

Skills

Financial acumen

Business partnering

P&L management

Investment decision support

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Data mining tools

Job description

This is a highly strategic role in the EU Expansion Finance team, where you will be acting as a Finance leader ("CFO") for the recently launched Ireland (IE) Stores business, working in close partnership with the IE country manager. You will oversee and have the ability to influence the entire Stores business across all channels (retail, 3P), operations and supply chain. You will be responsible for all finance related topics with special focus on investment decision support, business performance management striving to grow the business while improving its profitability. You will also own one or more functional areas (such as Selection, Marketing or other) across all 5 EU Emerging Marketplaces (NL, BE, SE, PL, IE) supporting multiple Director+ stakeholders.

This multifaceted role is a unique opportunity to use your financial acumen and leadership skills to influence strategic decisions and make a real impact to these fast growing businesses.

Key job responsibilities

- Business partnering.

- Business performance and P&L management.

- Investment decision support.

- Business case modelling and analysis.

- Strategic advice.

- Insights generation.

About the team

EU Expansion Finance is a team of ambitious country finance leaders ("CFOs") acting as business partners on a full range of finance topics and Functional Experts specialising on key strategic pillars operating across the EU Emerging countries.

Supporting new country business brings a whole range of exciting challenges covering a wide variety of topics driving customer experience, fast growth and improving profitability. It's a fast moving area with many opportunities to be creative and experiment with new approaches to drive real business impact.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

- Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles

- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making

- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of SQL/ETL

- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan

- Experience in 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 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)

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