Finance Manager, Selling Partner Services

The Selling Partner Services (SPS) organization is looking for an experienced Chartered Accountant or MBA+Engineer for Finance Manager role to support Customer Trust FP&A. SPS employs over 30,000 employees who provide support to Amazon's Selling Partners while also ensuring that we protect Amazon customers from bad actors. SPS is responsible for preventing bad actor activity across nearly every Amazon product line. This is a critical role where we strive to identify, mitigate and prevent the ability of those who attempt to defraud Amazon and our customers.

This Finance Manager will be a key player in providing financial insights to business and operations leaders within the Customer Trust team and partner closely with Operations, Business, Accounting, Data Analytics teams. The role includes month end close activities and reconciliations, controllership, forecasting and budgeting responsibilities, and weekly/monthly operations and financial reporting for business and operations partners.

The role includes opportunities for complex model creation and forecasting, driving standardization and automation of reporting and insights to business partners. The candidate will need experience with working with large data sets, build statistical models and the ability to work across teams to deliver results. The right individual should possess solid business judgment be able to provide insights and trade off decisions to business partners, and be able to work collaboratively with multiple finance and business teams. It will be expected that the candidate can identify issues by diving deep and working with technical teams to pinpoint root causes, drive closure, invent and simplify, and implement solutions.

Key job responsibilities

Build complex financial models, provide timely and insightful reporting of results

Analyze and lead Opex variances analysis vs. plan for monthly, quarterly, and yearly business reviews

as well as execute ad-hoc projects and analysis as needed to provide insights to business partners including cost-savings and process improvement recommendations

Support internal customer groups in finance matters including budgeting, forecasting and financial control

Support financial review processes including monthly financial, quarterly and annual business reviews, planning, forecasting, and ad hoc analysis

Drive standardization and streamlining of planning and forecasting processes

Work with data source providers to ensure that data is accurate, automated and timely available

Develop scalable and efficient financial processes that support the operations

Partner across the finance organization to drive continuous improvement in financial and operational performance

Drive automation of reporting and analytics

Support month end closing activities

Basic Qualifications

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

5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience

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

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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel

Preferred Qualifications

5+ 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)

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