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 SFA for Sort Centers 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 Manager will also lead long term strategic planning, 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!

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Manesar, HR, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience

• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience

• 6+ 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