Finance Manager in City of Westminster

Amazon is seeking an experienced Finance Manager for its WW Amazon Shipping (SWA) Finance org, a growing area that is integral to the Amazon flywheel. This person will be a leader in the Finance organization supporting the business initiatives related to SWA EU. This is a very high impact and high visibility role supporting business leaders to drive sustainable growth in the EU business. The role offers advancement opportunities to support different businesses and to lead programs or products.

The ideal candidate will be primarily responsible for marketplace Commercial Finance business partnering and Financial Planning & Analysis activities for EU, driving financial modelling, controllership and identifying opportunities across pricing and operations cost. This person will be working closely with Business, Operations, Product and Tech teams, as well as ATS and AMZL Finance teams. A successful candidate 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 retail, transportation, and finance teams to identify best practices across the network and lead cost improvement efforts for operations. It also requires a strong self-starter mentality, exceptional stakeholder management capabilities and will stretch your leadership skills while also requiring you to digest the complexity of the Amazon transportation network to deliver process improvement.

Key job responsibilities:

• Drive core financial processes for the organisation including Annual Operating Plans, 3 year Strategic Plan, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews.
• 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.
• Analyse 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field.
• Experience working with stakeholders, or experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis.
• Experience working with Excel and large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as Python, SQL or Tableau.
• Experience with financial analysis and modeling.
• Advanced or master's degree in finance, economics or mathematics, such as a CA, CMA, CWA or MBA.
• Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment.
• Experience working in large teams or at a national/multinational organisation.
• Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influence decisions.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.