Strategic Finance Manager, Transportation Operations

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 105,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to support Transportation Operations Management. This role will own the budget, drive financial performance, and partner with business leaders to influence labor, spend, and performance.

You will build and maintain financial models to answer key questions and deliver analyses to guide senior management decisions. You will deep-dive into cost drivers, partner with site leadership to improve labor efficiency, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field.
• 5+ years of finance or related analytical field experience.
• MBA, or CPA preferred.
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Controllership & Budget Ownership: Own the budget, financial performance, and controllership of your respective area. Manage spend against plan, investigate variances to root cause, and execute financial processes with the attention to detail and controls compliance the role demands.
• Business Leadership Partnership: Serve as the embedded finance partner to your business leaders, earning a seat at the table as they run their yard operations. Build the trust that brings finance in early, and translate the financial picture into decisions on labor, spend, and performance.
• Robust Modeling & Business Partnership: Build and maintain the financial models that answer difficult business questions and support senior management decisions. Deliver balanced analyses of financial and operational trade-offs to facilitate informed decision-making.
• Cost Management & Continuous Improvement: Dive deep into the operational drivers behind cost to surface the "why" behind performance. Partner with site leadership to improve labor efficiency and reduce cost to serve, bringing a Think Big mindset to structural opportunities.

Skills

Budget ownership

Finance partner

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Data interpretation

SQL/ETL

Data mining tools

Education

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

MBA or CPA

Tools

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Essbase

Cognos

MS Access

Job description

Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to support Transportation Operations Management. This role will own the budget, drive financial performance, and partner with business leaders to influence labor, spend, and performance.

You will build and maintain financial models to answer key questions and deliver analyses to guide senior management decisions. You will deep-dive into cost drivers, partner with site leadership to improve labor efficiency, and