DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Operations is at the heart of what we do, delivering millions of packages each day and fulfilling customer orders from all over the world. Amazon is seeking a SFA to help lead and oversee critical functions for Amazon Sort Centers – our rapidly expanding middle mile package operation, purpose-built to achieve and exceed the delivery quality and speed demands of Amazon customers.
Amazon’s Sort Center network is growing fast and this is a great opportunity for a Finance leader to learn about Operations and make a big impact.
A Financial Analyst will be the finance leader for disruptive new transportation initiatives, with a focus on business partnering, strategic decision support, financial controllership and cost reduction. This person will partner with multiple stakeholders to provide timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership to this high-growth organization. This role requires extensive cross-functional partnership with various transportation and finance teams to identify best practices across the network and lead cost improvement efforts.
The leader will also lead annual planning, variance analysis for monthly/quarterly business reviews, and ad-hoc projects and analysis as needed.
Key job responsibilities
The role has primary responsibility to ensure we deliver a great customer experience at competitive and sustainable transportation costs and requires partnering with many internal teams (Transportation, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Accounting, , Accounts Payable, Engineering, Real Estate, and IT) to drive performance and simultaneously build a world class Operations Finance team. Key Responsibilities include:
• Partner with your team and develop all weekly and monthly financial close activities, all planning, forecasting, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to both your operations & other business partners
• Proven ability to develop strategic relationships with your business partners – you influence the decisions. You can root cause issues quickly and uncover core issues using data, then assist, consult with, and teach the business how decisions affect costs in their sites and create new mechanisms as they are needed
• Identify and develop key business opportunities and drive efficiency while balancing customer promise
• Expertise in collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data and creating meaningful analyses to lead business improvement and cost reductions
• Partner with teams to drive cost out and optimal cross functional decisions that maximize Amazon’s long term free cash flow.
A day in the life
The successful candidate will drive new insights into key financial and operational performance drivers and become a trusted leader within the organization. Will be a strong and inspirational leader who hires, develops and retains the best talent.
About the team
Operations is at the heart of what we do at Amazon, delivering hundreds of thousands of items each day. Operations finance is the financial engine and trusted business partner for our operations leaders. We use data to solve hard problems and advise our customers on business decisions and opportunities. Everything we do is through the lens of controllership and to increase goodness for customers – we are home to continuous improvement champions, automation advocates, and all who love to work at scale. If you obsess over customers, people, and productivity, come join us!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 1+ years of finance experience
– 2+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
– 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
– Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
– Experience using data to influence business decisions
– Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
– Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL