Amazon is seeking a Manager - Finance for its WW Ship With Amazon (SWA) finance org, an area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel.
This person will be a key leader in the Finance organization supporting the business initiatives related to US SWA. This is a very high impact and high visibility role supporting the growing US SWA business as it seeks to scale through new demand streams.
The person in this role will have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and to lead programs or products.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive Revenue and Pricing Strategies working in tandem with Revenue Management and Pricing teams.
- Execution of Pricing strategy through Pricing Evaluation templates and via Shipper 360 - Amazon Shipping's pricing tool
- Shipper Performance monitoring post onboarding via Profitability Evaluator tool (in-house Amazon Shipping tool).
- Automation of Performance reporting via Quicksight and Cost Prediction via Cost-X (in-house tool)
- Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs, and make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure.
- Partner with senior business leaders and develop operational metrics and goal setting to help the team improve performance
- Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.
Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communications drive critical business decisions.
- Analyze ROI of different programs / initiatives and generate actionable insights from large amounts of data
- Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.
- Exhibit social responsibility. Actively recruit bar-raising talent, continuously develop your team.
About the team
Amazon’s Marketplace services over 2 million Sellers, disrupting traditional notions of retail marketplace and connecting millions of businesses, big and small, to millions of Amazon Customers.
The Marketplace business exceeds 50% of the total Amazon.com sales and each year, tens of thousands of businesses join the marketplace adding millions of new products.
Sellers are a critical part of Amazons ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earth’s largest selection, lowest prices, and outstanding delivery experience.
Want to help build the finance team at the world's leading e-commerce company? Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results?
Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily?
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)
- 7+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 5+ years of finance experience
- 3+ years of direct management experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA and / or Professional certification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or CPA)
- 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)