Principal Finance Manager, Corp FP&A - Planning & Insights

Within Amazon’s Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A), we enjoy a unique vantage point into everything happening within Amazon. Our team provides strategic support to the CFO, CEO and senior leadership on enterprise-wide planning, analysis, and reporting. As the central place the entire company looks to for an understanding of financial performance, we play a major role in driving company-wide financial processes and business decisions.

In this role, you will lead key financial and business reporting routines and process excellence (including automation) projects essential to the heartbeat of Amazon Finance. The position will support multiple VP/Directors and will work closely with Corporate FP&A technology and reporting teams and business unit finance teams.

The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, solution oriented and have a demonstrated ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, financial analysis, logical reasoning, and presentation of alternatives. Importantly, this role touches the design & delivery of global FP&A processes and thus, the successful candidate will work collaboratively with both technical and non-technical functions to deliver results and provide solutions to various stakeholder needs. While this role is an individual contributor role, it is expected to meaningfully contribute to increased team engagement through collaborative and inspiring cross-functional project leadership.
Beyond the meaningful day-to-day responsibilities, this role offers unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. You will build partnerships across diverse finance teams, such as the Business FP&A, Reporting, Forecasting and Analysis (RFA) and Global Finance & Technology (GFT) teams, expanding your expertise and honing your collaboration and influencing skills. Additionally, you will have the chance to directly influence the future vision for our global FP&A capabilities, translating your ideas into long-term business impact.


Key job responsibilities
• Leads key business deliverables and reporting (such as company goals, company performance documents, operating plan business narratives) for Amazon’s senior leadership team and Board of Directors, working with a multitude of geographically and functionally dispersed teams to drive results.

• Lead FP&A process improvement projects including AI-driven automation, collaborating with high performing finance and technology professionals to support our global FP&A process excellence roadmap.

• Lead process effectiveness reviews, engaging with a broad range of business unit finance teams.
• Drive company-wide analysis and overviews for senior leaders, providing insights on business priorities and outlook.

• Effectively utilize Cognos/TM1 and other company financial systems to support deep dive analysis and results summarization in response to senior leadership needs.