Finance Manager, North America Customer Fulfillment Capital

$85,900 - $179,500/Yr

Amazon - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Finance Manager for North America Customer Fulfillment Capital at Amazon is responsible for overseeing the financial close of a complex, multi-billion-dollar network. This role involves partnering with various cross-functional teams to drive cost-effective operations while ensuring compliance with internal controls and SOX requirements. The Finance Manager will play a key role in continuous improvement and standardization of financial processes, providing insights and solutions to enhance operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Participate in month-end close and quarter-end close controllership activities in compliance with Governance, Risk & Compliance procedures.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of best practices in the controllership area.
• Prepare key insights in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner as a highly trusted source of information about financial data, processes, and business operations.
• Identify and implement solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Make thoughtful time management decisions independently, prioritizing work, resolving issues, meeting deadlines, and seeking feedback from the manager.
• Discern between urgent and non-urgent issues and act accordingly to solve them.
• Participate in events, initiatives, and projects, sharing gained knowledge in and outside of the team.
• Contribute to work-life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members.

Requirements

• BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)
• 5+ years of finance/accounting experience, or Master's degree and 3+ years of finance/accounting experience

Nice-to-haves

• MBA and/or Professional certification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or CPA)
• 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)
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• Experience delivering budgeting, variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Financial benefits
• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package