Finance Manager, Amazon

Project Santos

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SQL
Python
Mid and Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
Mid and Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • We are looking for someone that has strong analytical and communication skills, with an ability to articulate financial results and analytical insights to senior business and finance leaders
  • Scrappiness is a must, as is the ability to dive deep into the data to help the new business achieve results
  • Successful candidate should be able to think and act both strategically and tactically
  • This individual should possess solid business judgment, strong analytical skills, attention to detail and the strong desire to dive deep into data results and problem solving
  • Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
  • Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles

Desirable

  • MBA
  • Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MS Power Query, Python)

What the job involves

  • We are looking for high caliber finance professional to join our fast growing businessess, Buy with Prime (BwP) and Multi-channel Fulfillment (MCF)
  • In this role you will build scalable finance processes and analytical frameworks leveraged by multiple cross-functional teams
  • You will work directly with business leaders to define strategy for our business by balancing growth and profitability
  • You will apply both business and analytical acumen in a fast-paced, ambiguous and innovative environment
  • Oversee financial reporting for your business area
  • Understand input drivers and validate integrity of the reporting to influence strategic decision-making and planning
  • Use data to identify disruptive ideas and provide advice to business leaders across the globe
  • With Controllership as the top priority, you identify, resolve, or provide guidance to resolve complex data integrity issues
  • You improve controls to address financial risk and support frugality
  • Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs
  • You make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where there data may be scarce or difficult to procure
  • Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner
  • Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly
  • Your communications drive critical business decisions
  • Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions
  • Become an expert in your lane to contribute to work-life harmony
  • You are a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members and model operations excellence and efficiency

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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