Finance Manager, WW Stores IPAT

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Finance Manager to drive financial analysis and reporting for its WW Stores business. This pivotal role involves collaborating with various teams to provide insights and build financial models that influence key business decisions. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a strong analytical background, capable of handling large data sets and communicating results effectively to senior leadership. Join a dynamic environment where your expertise will not only enhance financial processes but also open doors to numerous career opportunities within the organization. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and are passionate about finance, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of finance experience or 3+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Experience with financial systems and large data sets is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Support financial models and KPIs for monthly results and forecasts.
• Create insightful reports and perform ad hoc analysis for leadership.

Skills

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Collaboration

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Time management

Education

BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics

Master’s degree

MBA or CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Excel

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Job ID: 2777503 | Amazon.com Services LLC

WW Stores IPAT Finance seeks a Finance Manager to support with the planning, reporting and analysis for headcount and opex centrally for WW Stores business. This is a highly visible role supporting financial analyses that guide decision-making among senior business leaders. They will partner with multiple teams across WW Stores, as well as Finance teams in other orgs, to provide insights, build mechanisms and tools to surface key analytics, dive deep into large sets of data.

This role requires a self-starter with a keen attention to detail, a track record of influencing business partners with data-driven decision making, and the ability to move fast. Communication and collaboration are key, as the individual will interact with numerous functions and teams within Amazon.

In addition to reporting on business results and long-term planning, this role provides an opportunity to partner with financial systems and other teams on data-driven projects driving product enhancements and financial insights for senior leadership. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

1. Supporting building financial models and KPIs to review monthly results, quarterly forecasts, and annual plans, make recommendations on process improvements that will help to deliver results, and influence leaders throughout Amazon.
2. Creating and maintaining insightful reports when explaining monthly and quarterly variances between actuals and plan.
3. Deliver monthly financial close reporting deck and planning cycle reports. Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets.
4. Performing Ad hoc analysis and projects to support leadership initiatives.
5. Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
6. Partnering with other teams and business partners to produce standardized reporting and forecasting mechanisms. Driving process standardization, prioritizing improvements that increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.
7. Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from manager.
8. Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 7+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 7+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 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 communicating results to senior leadership.