Finance Manager, NA Fresh Finance

Amazon; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Finance Analyst, where you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of grocery finance at a leading online retailer. This position offers the chance to work closely with various departments, enhancing forecasting accuracy and driving strategic decisions. Your expertise will be vital in managing financial models, delivering insightful analysis, and fostering collaboration across teams. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, this role provides an exciting opportunity to impact a rapidly growing segment of the business. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about finance, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance or a related analytical field.
• Strong knowledge of financial systems and advanced Excel functions.

Responsibilities

• Own the Online channel customer funnel and improve forecasting accuracy.
• Partner with teams to support leadership decisions and automate reporting.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Data Interpretation

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

MS Excel

SQL

Oracle

SAP

Cognos

Job description

The Role:

As the Finance analyst supporting the Fresh Grocery online channel, you will own the consolidated bottoms-up planning model, defining net new channel and scenario views, and crafting the growth story narrative to leadership. This role is highly visible, with opportunity to partner with leaders across Marketing, Retail Operations, and Product organizations to drive a cohesive business plan and narrative. Grocery is a key investment area for the company and growing rapidly, so there will be opportunity to increase scope and exposure in this role.

Key job responsibilities

1. Own expanding on the existing Online channel customer funnel, helping improve our forecasting granularity, accuracy, and move towards automation.
2. Partner with Real Estate and Topology teams to build scenario analysis capability to support various leadership decisions around site and store launches.
3. Partner with Marketing business partners to evolve our measurement of and forecasting for key customer funnel metrics (e.g. retention) and contribute to monthly business review forums.
4. Partner with the initiatives finance lead to standardize and automate product planning and reporting.
5. Deliver monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
6. Create effective business partnerships, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events.
7. Participate in hiring, developing, and mentoring peers and team members. Seek and leverage diverse perspectives in all activities.
8. Contribute to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.

About the team

Who We Are:
The Grocery Finance organization is dedicated to shaping the long-term strategy and future of grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
2. BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 7+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience.
2. 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.
3. MBA, or CPA.
4. Knowledge of SQL/ETL.
5. 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).
6. Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Posted: December 3, 2024 (Updated about 4 hours ago)