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Who we are: The Amazon Go Finance organization is dedicated to help shape the long-term strategy and future of grocery and convenience formats across Amazon. Amazon Go is a new kind of physical convenience store with no lines and no checkout – you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon app, credit card, or Amazon One to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh food, snacks, and beverages, and go! This is a great opportunity to support an exciting new business within Amazon.

Career Opportunities: As we continue 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 Worldwide Grocery Stores Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams, to lead new programs and initiatives, and to manage larger teams within the company.

The Role: We are looking for a Finance Manager to play a key role on the Amazon Go Finance team supporting the Category Management teams. This role will work closely with the Category and Merchandising teams and key business stakeholders to influence decisions across selection and new programs to improve both topline and bottom-line performance of Go stores. This role serves as the go-to finance partner for a critical area of the business, and will drive deep dives, bridging analysis, and Free Cash Flow programs to deliver insights and influence business partners. Additionally, this role will own key deliverables for forecasting, goals and cost out initiatives for the Amazon Go Category teams.

Team Exposure/Scope: This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across the Worldwide Grocery Stores Finance organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company.

Success in this role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are a self-starter, they collaborate and influence business partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment and think long-term.

Key job responsibilities
– Collaborate with Amazon Go Category and Merchandising teams and other stakeholders to identify, recommend, and validate success criteria for initiatives to drive sales and cost out initiatives
– Establish and maintain key financial and operating metrics
– Design and develop both recurring and ad hoc reporting and bridging analysis
– Present weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial summaries and business insights to senior leadership
– Lead short and long-term bottoms up forecasting process by category
– Develop scalable and efficient financial processes to support an emerging business
– Partner with cross-functional teams to build financial models/analysis for business and investment decisions
– Partner with business teams to enable success in the annual Goals process

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
– 5+ years of finance experience and Bachelor’s degree, OR Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance 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
– 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
– Applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
– Building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
– Creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
– Participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
– Building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
– MBA and/or CPA

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, WA, Seattle