Finance Manager: Retail Analytics & Growth

Time Personnel; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Cape Town is seeking a Finance Manager for Retail across Sub-Saharan Africa. The role focuses on establishing financial controls, robust reporting, and data-driven decision support across global teams.

The candidate should excel at large data sets, BI tools, and translating analyses into executive business terms, partnering with internal and external teams to drive value and profitability.

Qualifications

• Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision‑making.
• Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel.
• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Build review routines with the local business and roll‑out related tools.
• Own and develop robust mechanisms to inspect growth and profitability.
• Establish controllership and approval mechanisms to manage day‑to‑day profitability.
• Invent, simplify, and automate management reporting with BI teams across Amazon world.
• Provide strategic guidance, tactical direction, and decision support to business and finance partners.
• Lead key analytical projects and influence senior leadership decisions.
• Develop financial plans for short and long‑term planning exercises.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Finance analytics

Forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Education

MBA or CPA

Tools

SQL

SQL/ETL

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

MS Access

Job description

Amazon in Cape Town is seeking a Finance Manager for Retail across Sub-Saharan Africa. The role focuses on establishing financial controls, robust reporting, and data-driven decision support across global teams.

The candidate should excel at large data sets, BI tools, and translating analyses into executive business terms, partnering with internal and external teams to drive value and profitability.