Description
The Grocery Finance organization is dedicated to shaping the long-term strategy and future of grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon. We are looking for a Finance Manager to drive financial excellence for NA Fresh, including month-end close, financial reporting, financial reviews, controllership, and reporting automation.
As the reporting lead of NA Fresh, you will play as a pivotal role in partnering regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across Amazon Grocery, Whole Foods Market, Amazon Grocery Logistic, often at some with the most senior levels within the company. This leader will own the financial narrative for NA Fresh performance, provide strategic insights to the business team, and drive accountability across the organization.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate is an experienced finance professional who thrives in ambiguity, has a bias for action, and demonstrates a proven track record of delivering results through cross-functional partnership.
Own the consolidation of the NA Fresh P&L, providing inputs, analysis, and storytelling to leaderships
Lead all financial reporting for NA Fresh, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and actionable insights for senior leadership and stakeholders
Support the weekly, monthly, and quarterly finance reviews, delivering compelling financial narratives and strategic recommendations
Drive month-end close processes, partnering with Accounting and cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and timely financial results
Establish and enhance controllership practices, including internal controls, variance analysis, and financial governance
Lead new reporting mechanism to support growing cross-banner reporting requests, enabling comparisons with other grocery banners and across categories
Ensure data fidelity across critical reporting systems (Cognos, Discovery, Redshift, PS Decks, Balto)
Partner with product team to drive automation and scale of new financial reporting.
Lead key analytical projects that influence senior leadership decision-making
A day in the life
We are looking for an strong L6 Finance Manager with strong modeling skills and financial acumen. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is passionate about the customer experience, who thinks/acts globally, and who will contribute with strategic and impactful reporting. This role requires a self-starter with bar raising skills in financial modelling and project management, as well as a keen attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations. They will need to demonstrate the ability to manage a wide range of problem-solving situations requiring extensive use of data modeling and analysis, as well as working with stakeholders across the org to operationalize and scale new and existing reporting processes and tools. They need to be a proficient communicator and writer, and be able to consolidate complex strategies into a concise and simple narrative for the NA Fresh leadership (L10s and L8s).
This role garners high visibility with regular interactions with various finance, business and tech teams and leaders across Amazon to grow your career and scope.
About the team
Be a Part of a Unique Growth Story!
Grocery is the next great growth opportunity for Amazon! With the 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, and rapid growth in new store formats and online delivery, Grocery has quickly become a must win category. Amazon Fresh Stores Finance is well positioned to help the business drive growth, and unlock the full potential of the Amazon flywheel.
As our team continues 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 Amazon Fresh Finance team and Operations Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams, to lead new programs and projects.
This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across the Amazon Grocery banners, Retail, Tech, Whole Foods Market, and WW Operations organizations.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making 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 finance or a related analytical field experience
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
5+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
MBA, or CPA
Knowledge of SQL/ETL
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)
Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, NY, New York - 104,900.00 - 179,500.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
