Finance Manager, North America (NA) Operations Optimization

Amazon; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 86,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager to join the Outbound Global Transportation Services (GTS) team. The role owns planning and reporting of key KPIs and financial impacts, focusing on cost-to-serve improvements and end-to-end cost management across the outbound network.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to build bottoms-up plans, quantify initiative impacts, and drive performance tracking. Strong FP&A, data analysis, and communication skills are essential for senior audiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL and data mining tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and financial systems

Responsibilities

• Builds bottoms-up financial plans aligned with broader OB team costs
• Quantifies initiative impacts on end-to-end financials and validates impacts with cross-functional teams
• Creates/maintains weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting to track GTS performance and initiative execution
• Creates frameworks to intake initiatives to improve GTS costs

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/CPA

Tools

SQL

ETL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Description

This Finance Manager role supports the Outbound Global Transportation Services Team(GTS). In this role, the Finance Manager will own supporting the GTS team in the planning and reporting of key KPIs and financial impacts. The GTS team optimizes transportation assets to maximize Cost, Capacity Constraints, and Customer experience. Given the NA Stores Senior Leadership focus on improving cost-to-serve and sustainability this role will be focused on cost reduction initiatives, granular financial planning through incorporation in input KPIs, and tracking actual performance against these initiatives and plans, while subsequently zooming out to confirm whether the expected network benefits are materializing across the NA Stores P&L. This role combines aspects of FP&A such as planning and insights with aspects of strategic finance and end-to-end cost management across many groups within Outbound transportation.

Description

This Finance Manager role supports the Outbound Global Transportation Services Team(GTS). In this role, the Finance Manager will own supporting the GTS team in the planning and reporting of key KPIs and financial impacts. The GTS team optimizes transportation assets to maximize Cost, Capacity Constraints, and Customer experience. Given the NA Stores Senior Leadership focus on improving cost-to-serve and sustainability this role will be focused on cost reduction initiatives, granular financial planning through incorporation in input KPIs, and tracking actual performance against these initiatives and plans, while subsequently zooming out to confirm whether the expected network benefits are materializing across the NA Stores P&L. This role combines aspects of FP&A such as planning and insights with aspects of strategic finance and end-to-end cost management across many groups within Outbound transportation.

Key job responsibilities

• Builds bottoms-up financial plans that are aligned with the broader OB teams costs, using relationships from Input KPIs.
• Quantifies initiative impacts on end-to-end financials, partners with cross-functional finance teams to validate the impacts, and ensures incorporation into related input metrics and financial plans.
• Creates/Maintains Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly reporting track GTS performance and initiative execution versus plan, combining strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills to up-level content/narratives for an Senior audience
• Creates frameworks and mechanisms to intake initiatives to improve GTS costs

About The Team

The GTS team ensures that the total OB network is making optimal choices. As the finance team, we have understand the E2E outbound network and ensure we are optimizing financials throughout the supply chain. This work is highly cross functional, data driven, and has high visibility with Sr. Leadership. Many of the largest financial impacts in the Network has relied on GTS initiative (ex. Regionalization, ramping down 3P carriers, etc.).

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree

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
• 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10571285