Finance Manager, Finance Operations Business Partnering

On the Business Partnership (BP) Team within Finance Operations (FinOps), you will find yourself working with multi talented and dedicated people committed to driving financial improvement, scalability, and process excellence. As Amazon continues to grow, we are recruiting a Finance Manager, Business Partnering in Non-Inventory Accounts Payable to drive expansion in complex and innovative situations. You will lead critical initiatives across businesses, tech teams, and other stakeholders to drive change and implement scalable solutions to increase Vendor Experience, Amazon productivity and Free Cash Flow (FCF).You will work with leaders across the world from a diverse range of organizations, including Transportation, Operations, Tax, Marketing and Legal, using your analytical and problem-solving skills to manage complex and high visibility priorities in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. This role operates with a significant level of autonomy, owning multiple VP-level goals, and is an ideal opportunity for a driven finance professional looking to broaden Core Finance experience in a project driven, operational area of finance.This role provides the opportunity to really make a difference in a high growth environment where your ability to identify and drive change will be key. So if you thrive in ambiguity, love solving complex problems and want to do that in Earth’s most customer-centric company, come and join us!Key job responsibilities- Define key performance indicators – develop metrics and service level agreements for core programs and processes, tracking delivery against program objectives- Consolidate inputs, and challenge assumptions, on performance drivers and projections from stakeholders- Obtain and summarize critical data sets to trace defect areas to primary root cause drivers, scope future state solutions, influence road map decisions and measure the effectiveness of solutions that are implemented over time- Own relationships with upstream business and technology teams to develop and deliver continuous system and process change, ensuring process excellence and highest levels of controllership- Own mechanisms to seamlessly support new program and tool launches worldwide.- Communicate program and policy updates to senior leaders and employees across multiple business and finance teams- Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects.- Work cross-functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and develop and implement plans to capitalize on those opportunities and measure and monitor success and impactsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 6+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience- 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience ...

Finance Manager, Last Mile Tech Finance

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Operations is at the heart of what we do, delivering hundreds of thousands of packages each day and fulfilling customer orders from all over the world. Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager to help own critical functions within the rapidly growing Last Mile org within operations.This Finance Manager will partner with the Routing and Planning team within Amazon Delivery's WW Last Mile technology teams as we build best in class OTR tech solves to improve AMZL's speed, quality and cost structure.This role is more than finance: it requires ability to invent, go beyond the standard business rules to “experiment” and “conceive” together with the business partners to find financial sustainable solutions to scale across the world. This role is strategic in nature (business partnering skills and curiosity are a must!), and is not a typical Finance role. If you're interested in learning about and shaping the technology used to power Amazon's deliveries and thrive in complex, ambiguous environments - this may be the role for you!As a member of a growing team, you will deal with a high level of ambiguity and changing priorities. The successful candidate will maneuver through the ambiguity, communicate effectively across teams and levels, while balancing the needs and requirements of internal and external customers. Flexibility and the ability to prioritize in a changing business environment will also be key. Key job responsibilities- Partner/Support senior leadership on product/project roadmap based on financial and operational efficiency improvements - Build financial models to support new product and science initiatives - Build business cases for launching multiple cutting edge technology features across teams for tech features/product launches - Evaluate tradeoffs and risks and opportunitiesBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Finance Manager, Amazon Intermodal Finance

Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) connects our customers and our shippers. We combine people, technology and products to deliver for our customers at the lowest possible cost. Surface Transportation is the conveyor belt to connect the entire Amazon supply chain. We are a technology company that executes transportation, and we get to do it all at a scale that nobody has ever seen!Amazon is growing its multimodal capabilities through expanding its Amazon Intermodal (AZIM) mode in Middle-Mile network. AZIM is building systems and capabilities to ensure that we deliver our customers’ freight, no matter how large or small, as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To support AZIM meet its goal, ATS Tech Finance is looking for an experienced Finance Manager to provide finance thought leadership to the leaders across product and tech, sales, and operations leaders. The role will require an individual to deep dive into business input drivers, dive into complex data pool, and use insights to influence business decisions. The role is ideally suited for a candidate who has demonstrated an exceptional financial modeling and statistical analysis and strong verbal and written skills. If you like taking a larger scope identifying the most cost effective and safest way to deliver to our customer you will enjoy transportation. This entire system has to move like a symphony and it has to be orchestrated. It is an incredible math problem that we have to solve; we have to put statistics and financial models behind it. In this role you will have a high level of visibility and partner with cross functional teams. We help others understand finance and are the trusted business advisors to our business teams.We are looking for a leader who exhibits excellent attention to detail and is comfortable with ambiguity. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. Regular collaboration with executives and various business units across Amazon will allow you the opportunity to exhibit your verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to improve and create new measures for business effectiveness, innovate creative solutions utilizing large scale data mining tools, and identify high priority projects to maximize results for key stakeholders.Key job responsibilities- Lead the development of short-range and long-range plans for the end-to-end Supply Chain of our Intermodal business (both internal and external). Drive quarterly guidance reviews and develop OP1/3YF and OP2 plans, ensuring alignment with leadership’s financial goals.- Work closely with Intermodal leadership to establish financial and operational KPIs and guardrails based on key input drivers. Foster collaboration with technology and business leaders in developing roadmap that aligns with senior leadership goals and drives sustainable growth.- Own E2E CAPEX planning for both AZIM and IM-External business through building of ROI, FCF, PBP, and IRR models and supporting the CAR approval. This includes integration of our processes with Central CAPEX Planning team and developing a working model including reviews with senior leaders.- Identify opportunities to resolve defects proactively and improves, scales, or simplify finance tools across teams and organizations.- Collaborate with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams and partner finance teams to ensure seamless integration of the Intermodal business unit plan into the overall Worldwide Operations and Amazon Inbound Transportation’s financial plans. Foster strong communication and coordination to drive alignment across the organization.- Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, and drive decisions.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Project Kuiper

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon’s long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world? It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s next billion dollar business and we are looking for an entrepreneurial minded Financial Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, is interested in analyzing new business opportunities, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions to business questions.The successful candidate will entrepreneurial by nature, a strategic thinker, analytical in approach, have a demonstrated ability to develop financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions. This role requires a self-starter with superb business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data and be able to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. An additional location for this role includes Amazon offices located in Redmond WA.Key job responsibilities- Create and implement financial and operating performance metrics, identifying key call outs and drivers to senior management- Develop financial benchmarking analysis of key competitors - Maintain long range financial models to project and evaluate business performance against key goals and metrics- Create and implement revenue and cost models models to be incorporated into business reviewsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience- Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. ...

Finance Manager, WW Grocery Stores FP&A

How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with disrupting a trillion dollar industry?The Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) FP&A organization is dedicated to working closely with the business leadership team to formulate the medium to long term financial and strategic plans for grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon. We seek to increase efficiency and profitability by analyzing financial and operational results to better understand business performance and communicate results to senior management.As we continue to grow, we are looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon and within the broader WWGS Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams, to lead new programs and initiatives, and to manage larger teams within the company.We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our team! This role directly supports the senior leadership team within WW Grocery Stores and will have broad responsibilities, including supporting our established business i.e. Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go on financial reporting, analyses and planning cycles as well as various strategic projects. This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across our organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. The leader must be effective at working through teams across the WW Grocery Stores organization to consolidate and articulate the overall drivers of current and future performance. That means the leader is good at stitching together multiple inputs to tell an accurate and insightful story of what’s happening. Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are a self-starter, they collaborate and influence business partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment and think long-term.Key job responsibilities- Partner with Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go FP&A teams to drive improved/automated financial reporting and planning processes.- Build models that help us track current financial performance and forecast future periods.- Develop new reporting and processes for Free Cash Flow and Cost to Serve across each of the Grocery businesses.- Drive strategic initiatives across WW Grocery businesses - Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go.- Support WW Amazon Stores Finance (IPAT) and Corporate FP&A to communicate WW Grocery Stores plans to Amazon's top leadership.- Work cross functionally with finance teams and senior leadership on ad-hoc analyses and deep dives.- Communicate financial and business results and plans, including variance analyses to senior leaders.- Create an environment that facilitates the development of challenging goals, business plans and financial plans and then help the business achieve these results.- Simplifying and automating planning tools and process across WW Grocery Stores.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 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 ...

Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Infrastructure Networking FP&A

AWS Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Networking Finance FP&A team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Networking and broader Infrastructure Finance team supporting key investment decisions, developing controllership around various FP&A processes and support new initiatives.You will work with diverse, collaborative, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. The growth of AWS and scope of Amazon’s business create opportunities to grow your career and broaden experience in any direction you choose. As a pioneer in cloud services, AWS lets you apply data, creativity, and analytical ability to completely new challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to work hard, have fun, and make history.Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than a big company. A successful candidate will be a self-starter who dives deep into data and support thoughtful decision-making, is able to build scalable processes, is detail oriented and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams. The candidate will be working closely with business finance teams and senior leadership across AWS Infrastructure and will be leading end to end processes around key planning and reporting cycles.Key job responsibilities- Facilitating financial review meetings with senior business and finance leadership to support decision making.- Maintain, and improve, existing finance processes to ensure data integrity, efficient and insightful analysis.- Play a critical role in cost management, controllership, business case development, decision-making, and metrics development- Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders - Driver controllership around new initiatives such as Generative AI investments, automation projects and technology transition initiatives reportingBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst - Alexa & AGI Finance, Alexa and AGI Finance - IPED (Insights, Planning, Econometrics, Decision)

Amazon’s Devices Finance organization is seeking an experienced finance leader.The finance leader will have corporate finance experience with an operationally focused mindset, a big thinker, and interest in being part of a fast paced, global organization. This is an exciting opportunity for a results driven leader to partner with Devices FP&A, Devices Finance Leadership as well as Device business leaders. Additionally, this role partners with other Corporate Finance teams in FP&A, Supply Chain and Accounting. The role will focus on revenue and gross margin accounts within the Alexa business.This role is expected to build a deep understanding of all aspects of financial planning, reporting and analytics, as well as building tools to streamline and automate current processes. The successful candidate will be strategic in thinking, analytical in approach, and have a demonstrated ability to influence the decisions of the business through effective communication, financial analyses, logical reasoning, and the creation of alternatives. The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies, including statistical concepts, while dealing with big data. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should be able to work with business customers to understand the requirements and implement financial solutions. This role requires a self-starter with excellent business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and good track record of influencing decisions. This role also has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.Key job responsibilities - Participating in short and long-term financial planning - Maintaining and tracking operating and business metrics - Building financial models for new business concepts - Developing scalable and efficient financial processes that support a rapidly growing business - Create new automation processes to streamline reportingBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience ...

Finance Manager, S3/Glacier Finance

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud services? ​Join us at AWS Finance! AWS Service Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to support cost and capacity in the Object Storage (S3) business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform. AWS S3 Finance seeks a world class Finance Manager to be a key member of its team. This position will work closely with key business partners to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership in the S3 services space.Some key responsibilities will include:- Drive controllership by managing capital spend reporting, tracking KPI’s, and performing variance analysis.- Develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.- Closely partner with S3 business team to drive capacity efficiency improvement. - Taking the lead in financial planning and analysis; building complex financial models and analytical tools to set and track overall financial performance against goals. - Be a thought leader to improve and simplify processes, drive standardization, and build scalable solutions to support business growth.This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. This role has regular interaction with various business teams and requires strong people skillsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Artificial General Intelligence

Amazon seeks a highly effective Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. This role will directly partner with the organization leading the development, implementation and optimization of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models. The right individual will play an important role in driving the development of GenAI technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. A successful candidate will love to learn and be curious and dive deep into data to understand and identify business trends, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve and prioritize. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as the ability to work autonomously with a proven work ethic and track record of delivering results.Key job responsibilities• Drive operational and cost efficiency initiatives for the AGI Foundations organization with an emphasis on inference optimization opportunities• Partner with AGI Foundations leadership on the design and implementation of reporting solutions and key metrics to drive insights and enable quicker and more effective decision making • Ownership of proactively identifying metric anomalies and highlighting reporting issues and gaps for leadership and partnering with cross-functional teams to determine and implement solutions• Ad hoc analysis including creating, maintaining and expanding the scope of the business and financial models that highlight opportunities and deliver results • Support monthly close and planning cycles related to AWS inference expenses A day in the lifeThis role will support the AGI Foundations organization under Amazon’s AGI business and will drive financial modeling, reporting and ad-hoc analysis, including creating, maintaining and expanding the scope of models that help drive the business. Given the strategic nature of this business, this is a high visibility role. You will work hand-in-hand with your business partners in the Foundations organization to size opportunities, perform impact analyses, and provides insights and recommendations.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Senior Risk Manager - Physical Security Controls, Finance Operations Risk Intelligence (FORI)

Amazon seeks a Senior Risk Manager within Finance Operations, Finance Operations Risk Intelligence (FORI). FORI provides risk, inspection and compliance services across Finance Operations with a mission to identify risks, protect assets, design to-be controls, and as appropriate assist process owners with risk mitigation or remediation all while balancing optimal business function, customer delight and controllership. This role will directly partner with Amazon Corporate Security and Global Real Estate & Facilities.In this role, you will lead and oversee projects, such as inspections, risk assessments, and advisory services, that shape process and control design to mitigate risk and drive a continuous controllership culture. Responsibilities will also include preparation of findings and engagement with stakeholders to complete action items. Your subject matter expertise is critical to develop strong working knowledge of processes, current initiatives, and organizational changes. You should have a strong background in processes, controls, and physical security.This role requires strong leadership skills to influence others and/or self-serve in order to achieve critical inspection objectives. You will be expected to identify risks in our processes and work with the appropriate owners to mitigate risks. You will need to dive deep to understand Amazon’s disparate and complex processes and related applications and work through ambiguity to deliver results.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level- Bachelor's degree or equivalent ...

Program Manager, OpEx and Insurance FBI

This role supports the global Operating Expense (OpEx) teams, including General OpEx, Marketing expenses and Compensation and Benefits. The OpEx space offers great opportunities to learn about Amazon’s broad landscape due to vast impact of OpEx. You will have the opportunity to influence the overall vision and strategy to automate certain OpEx tech debt which may require teams to build new systems. The individual will have the opportunity to manage small to medium size simple & complex projects with high impact and exposure. These programs provide great opportunities for learning all about Amazon’s North American consumer space and will require the individual to work across teams in FBI/Accounting, Tax, FinOps, business and tech. This space requires the individual to navigate through ambiguity and come up with solutions for new uses frequently.In this role, the individual will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have exhibited an ability to execute tactically and strategically. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.Key job responsibilities• Drive program objectives – provide program management and define project plans, manage implementation activities, and develop processes, documentation and communications for program/process rollout and ongoing support.• Define requirements and work with partner teams to design, implement and launch scalable solutions. • Design processes and procedures that scale with the business’ growth in volume, complexity, and global geographic dispersion.• Communicate new/updated programs and processes to leaders, employees, and cross functional organizations.• Collaborate and build relationships with system and business owners globally to ensure process excellence and the highest degree of controllership.• Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects.• Work cross-organizationally and functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and developing and implementing plans to capitalize on those opportunities and measure and monitor success and impacts. A day in the lifeDay to day activities will look like as follows:- Project Management- Delivering accounting requirements to business & tech- UAT testing- Communicate program updates to relevant stakeholdersBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 4+ years of program or project management experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams- Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules ...

Finance Manager, AWS Infrastructure Networking FP&A

AWS Finance seeks a Finance Manager to join the Networking Finance FP&A team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Networking and broader Infrastructure Finance team supporting key investment decisions, developing controllership around various FP&A processes and support Generative AI investment framework for Networking. You will work with diverse, collaborative, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. The growth of AWS and scope of Amazon’s business create opportunities to grow your career and broaden experience in any direction you choose. As a pioneer in cloud services, AWS lets you apply data, creativity, and analytical ability to completely new challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to work hard, have fun, and make history.Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than a big company. A successful candidate will be a self-starter who dives deep into data and support thoughtful decision-making, is able to build scalable processes, is detail oriented and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams. The candidate will be working closely with business finance teams and senior leadership across AWS Infrastructure and will be leading end to end processes around key planning and reporting cycles.Key job responsibilities1) Support VP and Director reviews pertaining to key investments across Networking infrastructure for OP and R&O planning cycles2) Support Generative AI investment framework in Networking Infrastructure and build planning and reporting mechanisms around Gen AI financials 3) Develop and report accurate, actionable, and timely financial and business metrics for monthly, quarterly and annual reviews4) Work closely with Networking and Central Infrastructure finance teams to own end to end forecasting (short term and long range) for Networking investments5) With Controllership as the top priority, you identify, resolve, or provide guidance to resolve complex data integrity issues. You improve controls to address financial risk and support efficiency of Networking investments.6) Create and implement best practices in financial bridging and storytelling to raise the standard of how financial data is communicated7) Lead process improvements and automation to deliver long-term system-based solutions and collaborate with Business Intelligence and Data Engineering teams to deliver automation that eliminates manual effort BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Finance Manager – Customer Behavior Analytics, Marketing Finance

Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) Finance seeks a Finance Manager to support CBA tools that inform financial decisions across our marketing measurement portfolio. CBA empowers teams across Amazon to better reach and serve our customers while maximizing long-term value through high-quality analytical products, predictive models and intuitive measurement tools. CBA is a cross functional team working on the cutting edge of science and technology to build measurement tools, data, and scientific models used to optimize Amazon's marketing spend with investments spanning types (fixed/variable, on/offsite, owned/paid), granularities (Social, TV, etc.), and businesses (Stores, Prime Video, Grocery, etc.). CBA also provides centralized targeting and customer segmentation solutions that enable automated systems and businesses to surface relevant content to customers and we also enable internal teams to experiment, measure, understand, and value the impact of changes made across Amazon customer experiences.The Finance Manager will partner with the CBA business and tech teams, providing financial guidance and controllership for the use and development of CBA tools across Amazon, with particular focus on variable marketing attribution models and marketing Growth-adjusted Composite Contribution Profit (GCCP). They will have a passion for learning about complex econometric models and communicating to a non-technical audience in a crisp manner. The successful candidate will possess potent communication and influencing skills, and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions. We are looking for a self-starter that attacks complex business problems with curiosity and dives deep to identify root causes. This individual thrives by providing data-driven decision support and business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable to senior leaders across various Amazon business. The ideal candidate will have a growth mindset, be comfortable with healthy respectful debate, and be skilled at earning trust across both finance and business teams.Key job responsibilitiesYou see your primary role as being a conduit between data science teams and the consumers of the data and decisions produced CBA models. You will also contribute to wider CBA Finance support, and provide peak support of CBA's other product offerings (e.g., Weblab).Your key responsibilities will include: • Provide finance support to WW variable marketing teams on the incremental value of marketing, developing quantitative and qualitive insights into customer behavior and impact to financial metrics• Collaborate with the Customer Forecasting and Valuation (CFV) finance partner to drive complex tactical change across the marketing GCCP product portfolio, partnering with cross-functional teams to define business requirements and change management strategies• Evaluate the impact on financial results when changes are made to CBA models/inputs, or when models are launched in a new marketplace; ensure consuming teams have the necessary information to bridge results • Provide financial controllership and guidance of CBA models/metrics across various use cases, acting as a steward to ensure appropriate application in decision making • Ensure proper controllership mechanisms are in place to govern both inputs and outputs of CBA models/metrics. Identify opportunities to drive operational excellence across both finance and CBA teams • Distill complex econometric models in a simplistic manner that customers can relate to and action with• Independently dive deep to identify root causes, developing financial models to evaluate risk to decision making and collaborating with stakeholders on resolution • Facilitate education/training across WW teams on the application of CBA models/metrics, as well coaching new team members• Provide support across broader CBA Finance workstreams, including CBA headcount management and reportingA day in the life• Collaborating with the Marketing Incrementality Measurement (MIM) and GCCP teams on quantifying the financial impact of changes to CBA models, effectively communicating impacts to decision making to WW stakeholders • Diving deep to understand potential impacts to marketing investment strategies driven by observed changes in customer behavior and/or changes in econometric models• Being part of engaging discussions around marketing measurement that aims to estimate long-term profitability from our marketing investments globally• Influencing stakeholders to resolve conflicting views, and managing stakeholder expectations and escalations • Partnering with CBA in ensuring our decisions are governed by and measured using the best representation of incremental LTFCF• Diving deep into the numerous inputs used in CBA models to root cause issues/inconsistencies About the teamThe Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon’s insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our products answer who did what, where and when it was done, and how key metrics were impacted. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience.The CBA Finance team works as part of the CBA team. We quantify the impact of CBA insights to Amazon's financials, support and engage worldwide Finance leadership in utilizing CBA outputs, and much, much more.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 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 ...

Finance Manager - Finance Operations Business Partnership, Kuiper

The Finance Operations Business Partnership (BP) team is seeking a Finance Manager who will be a key member of the Kuiper BP team. This individual will be responsible for supporting the Kuiper order-to-cash (O2C) process. In this role, you will responsible for developing and maintaining operational and business metrics and targets, driving global operational reviews, as well as owning improvements to achieve targets. As a business partner, you will work daily alongside Accounts Receivable, Service Centers, Kuiper Sales, Finance, Legal, Accounting, Tech, Customers, and other operational groups at all levels in a global environment. Complex problem solving and financial analysis skills are required to manage multiple high visibility priorities in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations. Responsibilities: - Define key performance indicators – develop operational and business metrics and service level agreements for programs and processes, and track delivery against global objectives. - Consolidate inputs, and challenge assumptions, on performance drivers and projections from stakeholders - Develop and maintain effective partnership between Finance Operations, Service Centers and Kuiper Business & Finance. - Obtain and summarize critical data sets to trace defect areas to primary root cause drivers, scope future state solutions, influence road map decisions and measure the effectiveness of solutions that are implemented over time - Solve critical customer, process, and system escalations effectively to ensure root cause analysis and effective problem resolution. - Identify and quantify financial and operational risks and opportunities- Support operational escalations effectively to ensure root cause analysis and effective problem resolution.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Energy Team

The AWS Data Center Finance team provides end-to-end financial support, driving AWS to be the lowest cost provider in Cloud computing and leader in customer experience. We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Global Energy Finance team which falls under the AWS Energy and Sustainability Finance team. The AWS Energy team is responsible for (1) Delivering Energy to AWS Data Centers, (2) Procuring Renewable Energy to support our 100% Renewable Energy goal, and (3) Developing our Sustainability and Carbon Strategy. This team provides critical support in the form of financial valuation, investment decisions, and driving the global portfolio strategy for Amazon’s Energy and Renewable Energy portfolio.We are looking for a Sr. Financial Analyst to support the end-to-end energy portfolio: energy deal valuation processes, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) reporting, energy opex and capex portfolio reporting, Month End Close processes, automation support, and more. Finance provides critical valuation support, thought leadership, financial acumen and controllership, and aids in critical decision making both at the deal and portfolio level. Note that the team has already invested in automation functionality for month end close and financial planning process, but we need to continue integrating our tools and systems to allow for end-to-end automation.Key job responsibilitiesIn this role, you can expect to:• Drive the reporting for our global energy opex and capex portfolio, including renewable energy• Develop automated web-based tooling and financial reporting• Report on the financial performance of our energy portfolio for monthly, quarterly, and annual reviews (including Month End Close and quarterly forecasting cycles)• Drive the valuations for Carbon-Free Energy portfolio, evaluating new deals across global markets• Present deal valuations and recommendations to Energy business partners, developing a deep knowledge of global energy marketsPreferred Qualifications: • Energy experience is a plus, but not required• Experience with financial controls and accounting• Advanced modeling skills including advanced Excel skills; experience in financial valuation• Understanding of energy markets, passion for renewable energy and sustainability preferred but not required• Ability to work independently, partner cross-functionally, and be self-motivated in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment• Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload• A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations• Ability to dissent, while building trust with your business partners• Solid business judgment and controllership focus• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a customer-focused, professional demeanorAbout the teamIn AWS Finance, you will work with exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. We benefit from diverse experiences and perspectives and are committed to inclusion as a business advantage and the right thing to do. The growth of AWS and scope of Amazon’s business create opportunities to grow your career and broaden experience in any direction you choose. As a pioneer in cloud services, AWS lets you apply data, creativity, and analytical ability to completely new challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to work hard, have fun, and make history.Amazon tops the 2018 Harris Poll for most reputable company, scoring first for Emotional Appeal, Products & Services, and Financial Performance, and top ten for Vision & Leadership and Workplace Environment. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the market leader in cloud infrastructure and services, supporting hundreds of thousands of customers of all sizes.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Senior Finance Analyst, AWS MAST (Messaging and Streaming) Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for the AWS MAST (Messaging and Streaming) Services team. This role will own the end-to-end P&L for few Dependent Services under the overall AWS MAST (Messaging and Streaming) Services umbrella. This role works across multiple business and finance teams to drive the business insights into performance, lead key projects, and drive process improvements across the organization. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively, manage multiple and time sensitive deliverables across a highly matrixed organization, along with managing risks and opportunities. The individual will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders.Key job responsibilities- Manage and develop the financial analysis processes- Partner with and proactively communicate across the AWS finance community to coordinate a complex and interconnected series of deliverables.- Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.- Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements including automation and coordination with upstream and downstream organizations.- Partner with finance teams across AWS to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.- Write and present narratives and analysis of AWS Infrastructure capital for senior leadership.- Lead large scale initiatives and financial controllershipBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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) ...

Senior Financial Analyst

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key partner for the high growth Sponsored Advertising business directly supporting the Creative Experience product org.This role will play a key role in evaluating ambiguous and complex opportunities in how our customers advertise on Amazon, creating models and reporting mechanisms that make our data more actionable, developing and communicating business insights through data analytics, and own reporting functions during the various business review and planning phases.The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnership. Experience with big data using scalable analytics tools are a must.Key job responsibilities* Manage financial and operational performance metrics for the business e.g. weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews* Partner with Interactive Video Ads product team to anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze initiatives and results; identify and drive growth and improvement opportunities* Support growth of the advertising business by evaluating and understanding shopper and advertiser needs and value drivers, supporting strategic initiatives, and forecasting high impact growth strategies* Uphold and enforce an environment of strong financial controllershipA day in the lifeIf you are a driven self starter and enjoy using analytical skills, diving deep and building new models this will be a good match. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to assist in simplifying and scaling our business through thoughtful analyses and partnerships with different stakeholders.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience ...

Finance Manager, Amazon Grocery Logistics - FP&A

How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with disrupting a trillion dollar industry?Do you want to be part of an organization that is designing and launching new business models across the world? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on customers and working backwards? If so, the Amazon Grocery Logistics (AGL) Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team is looking for a proactive team member with a can-do approach and record of delivering results.AGL FP&A is responsible for fulfillment operations spend across Amazon Fresh (FCs & Stores), Whole Foods Market, and Grocery Partnerships. Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses. Our teams experiment, fail fast, learn, and scale rapidly, while maintaining a data-driven decision-making culture.We are looking for a highly effective Finance Manager to be a key member of the Grocery Operations Finance Team. The team is responsible for critical network-wide reporting, support ad hoc financial analysis, and business planning. You will develop models and metrics packages, and partner with our BI teams to streamline automate reporting and implement process improvements.This role partners closely with a broad range of global finance and business leaders across retail and operations teams in order to design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reports on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.The successful candidate will influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon. They bring excellent verbal and written communication skills. They prioritize the most impactful projects and programs that will drive Amazon Grocery forward. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions.Key job responsibilities - Serve as the key FP&A partner working directly with Grocery Operations finance and business teams to provide financial information and support - Own the consolidation, analyses, and reporting on all of US Grocery Operations - Develop high quality, data-driven financial analyses that drive business insights and support informed decision-making by company executives - Partner with stakeholders including Operations, Accounting, and Finance Technology to identify opportunities and business requirements for financial systems, process improvement, and technology innovation/automation - Lead analytical support for ad-hoc/cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives - Lead in the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reviewsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience- 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 ...

Senior IT Auditor, DMAAC

At Amazon we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth, and that includes protecting our customers and their data. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Do you have a passion for architecture, security, software design and innovative technologies? Do you see security, compliance and risk management as business enablers? Amazon’s Internal Audit team is seeking a technology auditor to perform assessments of Amazon’s Devices, Media and Entertainment, Alexa, Advertising, and Corporate (DMAAC) functions. You will have the rare opportunity to dive deep into the internal architecture of Amazon’s infrastructure and services to assess operational risks and security posture.The ideal candidate is an experienced technology or security professional who can dive deep into a variety of complex architectures, identify risks and ensure DMAAC functions are designed and operating securely. As a Senior IT Auditor, you will lead the planning, scoping, execution, and reporting of audits based on identified risks. Assessment scope may include identity and access management, key management, data security/privacy, service monitoring, release management, and service availability.In this position you will dive deep into the details of your audits to develop meaningful findings that help in communicating the risk to the business. Through your work and with high judgement and a strong sense of controllership, you will be a champion for positive change. You must be able to understand complex business processes and identify the full range of risks related to processes, regulatory compliance, organization, policy, and technology.You should be comfortable interacting with technical software development engineers and business leaders, have a technical background and the ability to learn new technology concepts quickly. You should be able to translate technical risks into business issues. You should be able prioritize findings and recommendations and facilitate multiple stakeholders to agree on appropriate solutions and verify that risks are mitigated appropriately.You must be comfortable performing as a sole contributor or teammate, and coaching and training less experienced auditors. You must be an excellent writer who can succinctly communicate complicated technical issues in business terms. You must be a strong project manager who can manage a team and conduct your own audits from beginning to end, often managing multiple projects at once.The position is based out of Seattle or Washington D.C. metro area and may require up to 10 - 20% travel, including some international travel.Join us and help us to continue to raise the operations and security bar for Amazon!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- BA/BS degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.- 4+ years of experience assessing complex system architecture, software development, IT Operations and Compliance, Information Security, and/or Technical Program Management. ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Data Center Operations Finance

Do you want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Come join Amazon Web Services Finance! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform.On the AWS Finance team you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously and you should too!This role is on the AWS Infrastructure team. We provide end-to-end financial support driving AWS to be the low cost provider in Cloud computing and leader in customer experience. This includes supporting business owners in building, operating and innovating our Cloud datacenters. We support operations, business development, and engineering. You should be passionate about producing financial analysis enabling management to make breakthrough decisions, drive cash flow, and ultimately delight our customers.We are growing rapidly in existing regions as well as expanding into new regions. As a member of this team, you will work with regional AWS leadership to:- Serve as the key business partner working directly with regional AWS management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations. You must have the ability to structure problems, perform analysis, and present to your business partners. Supporting business partners at Amazon requires the ability to dissent, while building trust with your business partners- Prepare detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies- Manage the financial planning process. Model, analyze and forecast metrics that drive budgeting, forecasting and business decisions- Perform ad-hoc projects and analysis as needed- Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives- Develop new processes to support the fast-growing, global AWS businessBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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) ...