Finance Manager, Surface Transportation

at  Amazon EU SARL

• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
• Experience in Excel with advanced proficiency (pivots, lookups, etc.)
• Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
  Amazon is seeking a highly analytical and resourceful Finance Manager to support our EU Middle Mile transportation network, ATS. We are continuously innovating on behalf of Amazon customers to deliver larger selection quicker and at lower prices. In this role, you will drive profitability and customer experience by directly influencing the development, planning, and execution of our transportation network (https://youtu.be/en5YqrtBGvY).
  The role will require quickly learning operations to understand economics and key financial drivers, and gaining proficiency with Amazon data systems in order to conduct efficient analyses. You will be working closely with business partners, stakeholders, and other finance teams across transportation, fulfilment, supply chain, and technology teams to reduce cost, while improving customer experience.
  You are a person who enjoys operating in a dynamic, fast changing environment. You are able to process complex and, at times, ambiguous data, identifying and addressing key risks and helping operations to develop efficient customer centric solutions. In your previous role(s), you have been successfully managing multiple priorities, proactively and clearly communicating with key stakeholders, driving projects independently, and successfully delivering within the agreed timelines.

Key job responsibilities

• Providing analysis against budgets and previous periods, identifying risks and opportunities, and effectively communicating results to senior leadership in order to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions; ensuring that timely and accurate metrics and forecasts are created and maintained
• Driving continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of best practices and automation initiatives, collaborating with technology teams
• Supporting month-end close and financial operating planning, demonstrating finance acumen and ability to quickly adopt to different business needs
• Managing CAPEX and becoming a recognized partner for operational process owners to enable transparent and efficient capital spend and reporting to drive, manage and monitor performance
• Working on continuously improving controllership framework to evaluate and measure efficiency of our spend, developing metrics and reports to provide controllership to new programs, proactively identifying and leading cost reduction initiatives
• Preparing concise documents, tailored to various levels of stakeholders, and collaborating with operations’ leaders and other teams
• Mentoring and supporting junior team members
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
• Experience in mentoring junior finance or business team members
• Experience working with senior staff (e.g., c-suite)
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making

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• Providing analysis against budgets and previous periods, identifying risks and opportunities, and effectively communicating results to senior leadership in order to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions; ensuring that timely and accurate metrics and forecasts are created and maintained
• Driving continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of best practices and automation initiatives, collaborating with technology teams
• Supporting month-end close and financial operating planning, demonstrating finance acumen and ability to quickly adopt to different business needs
• Managing CAPEX and becoming a recognized partner for operational process owners to enable transparent and efficient capital spend and reporting to drive, manage and monitor performance
• Working on continuously improving controllership framework to evaluate and measure efficiency of our spend, developing metrics and reports to provide controllership to new programs, proactively identifying and leading cost reduction initiatives
• Preparing concise documents, tailored to various levels of stakeholders, and collaborating with operations’ leaders and other teams
• Mentoring and supporting junior team members
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
• Experience in mentoring junior finance or business team members
• Experience working with senior staff (e.g., c-suite)
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-makin