Finance Manager, Amazon Last Mile Investment Analytics

Do you want to leverage strong technical skills, financial acumen, and critical thinking on the growth of Amazon's operations network?

Sub-same Day (SSD) is an essential function in NA Amazon and provides a fast, convenient, and ‘delivery in hours’ service to Amazon’s customers. The SSD network is designed and optimized to fulfill speed-sensitive products to Amazon’s customers. Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while building a portfolio of delivery stations, and technology to deliver customers faster than same day service. You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet.

Investment Analytics Finance seeks a Finance Manager to join the Last Mile Investment Analytics team, partnering directly with our business and finance partners to own SSD Investment Analytics where you will influence decision-making within the org. You will have extensive cross-functional partnership opportunities with business and finance leaders across multiple disciplines including Real Estate, Long Range Planning, Topology, Construction, Startup and Launch teams to solve high visibility, high impact, unstructured problems as we optimize our delivery network. Your ability to deliver meaningful financial analysis through ambiguous situations and operate with a high degree of critical thinking will allow you to operate as the primary Finance stakeholder in the decision-making of growing our network.

Success in this role requires you to partner with and influence business owners, maintain a high degree of integrity, respectively audit and challenge business model assumptions, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. You will own the financial analysis behind the capital investment decisions SSD will make, and hold yourself and partners accountable for ensuring those data-driven decisions are best for Amazon. You bring best-in-class business partnership, critical thinking, and high judgement not only in the execution of your work but also while advocating strong controllership within your team and across stakeholders. You are comfortable asking thoughtful questions, communicating insights, and presenting your analysis to business leaders during reviews. You're a team player who thinks 2 steps ahead, prioritizes building analysis the "right" way, and appreciates process as much as execution.

This role directly impacts decisions on billions of dollars of investments in capital infrastructure. A successful candidate effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful recommendations leveraging extensive financial knowledge and critical thinking, and manages competing priorities in a dynamic environment. The candidate should demonstrate exceptional analytical capabilities, ability to work with ambiguity, and strong verbal and written communication skills, as direct interaction with global operations leadership is frequent.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build processes that improve the level of accuracy, automation, and scalability of financial analysis
- Own a subset of financial analyses from ideation through execution that balances speed of execution with accuracy to deliver the highest degree of value to Amazon
- Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communication drives critical business decisions
- Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them
- Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team
- Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influence across team members as an indicator of operations excellence

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience

Preferred qualifications

- MBA, or CPA
- 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
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- 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)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, TN, Nashville - 85,900.00 - 146,900.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Irving - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually