Amazon Looking for Finance Manager at Alberta Full Time

Description

Our Global Customer Fulfillment (GCF) finance teams predict the global product mix for our online store, source the products, and predict what consumers will want in each geography.

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to be the trusted finance partner. Experience with this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon, e.g. senior roles supporting different business lanes, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.

This role will partner closely with a broad range of Finance and business leaders in Operations, HR, Technology, and Retail; as well as with research scientists, technical product managers, and software developers. This role will design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. Regular collaboration with executives and various business units across Amazon will allow you the opportunity to exhibit your verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role, provides an opportunity to improve and create new measures for site productivity, innovate creative solutions utilizing large scale data mining tools, identifying high priority work/projects to maximize results for key stakeholders, and solve complex problems affecting company-wide strategic decision-making.

You must be willing and able to be onsite Monday through Friday (5 days a week) for this role.

Key job responsibilities

• Utilizing solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interoperate data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon which may have global impact

• Responsible for delivering weekly/monthly financial close, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidations utilizing financial systems and advance excel functions

• Create effective business partnership, manage competing priorities, and providing guidance during unexpected events

• Intuitively utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues

• Collecting and analyzing quantitative data to develop relevant reports leading to cost reductions

• Manage a direct report and take part in hiring, developing, and mentoring activities while you seek value, and leverage diverse perspectives

• Proactively identify opportunities to resolve finance defects and improve, scale, or simplify finance tools across teams and organizations.

• Contribute to work life harmony by becoming a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence

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

Brampton, ON, CAN | Mississauga, ON, CAN | Nisku, AB, CAN | St. Thomas, ON, CAN | Toronto, ON, CAN

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience

• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable 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

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

• Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel

• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving

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

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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.