Finance Manager – Amazon Jobs

Job Type: Finance Manager from home
Location: Boston work from home
Company: Amazon

Working with gifted, intelligent, and motivated individuals who think financial collaboration is essential to client success is what you can expect. Opportunities to advance your career and gain more experience in any path you choose are presented by the expansion of AWS and the size of Amazon’s operations. Being a leader in cloud services, AWS enables you to take advantage of entirely new opportunities and challenges by applying data, creativity, and analytical skills. It is an opportunity to work hard, enjoy yourself, and create history.

The best applicants will be analytical, have strong communication skills both in writing and speaking, feel at ease in a fast-paced, unclear atmosphere, and be able to successfully balance a number of conflicting priorities. They flourish in cooperative, cross-functional settings and develop solutions that serve both the upstream and downstream teams by starting with the demands of internal and external clients.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Finance Support

• Set monthly and annual performance goals, plan for variations, and share important information with top leadership.
• Develop into an authority on data center construction, covering factors that affect costs, relevant technology, suppliers, clients, and local quirks.
• Collaborate with other cross-functional teams, including those involved in services procurement, design engineering, and demand planning.

Controllership:

• Oversee financial operations such as month-end close reporting, budget and forecasting tasks, variance analysis, and key message communication to upper management
• Utilize diverse data sources to detect incomplete or erroneous information, pinpoint the underlying reasons, escalate discrepancies, implement corrections, and collaborate on their resolution
• Direct the cost analysis process by creating and enforcing policies and procedures
• Identify and oversee cost-saving projects.
• Identify and prioritize process flaws or waste and drive new methods and automation that eliminate detected defects or waste.

Team Leadership:

• You may participate in community finance events or programs (such as professional development or work/life harmony)
• You are inquisitive and actively seek out learning opportunities to acquire deeper or different areas of finance expertise and share knowledge both inside and outside of your team)

Requirements:

PRIMARY QUALIFCATIONS

• Five or more years of expertise in a comparable analytical discipline, such as finance or tax
• A bachelor’s degree in business, statistics, or engineering, or a bachelor’s degree plus five or more years of experience in a quantitative role (quality assurance, process re-engineering, engineering, etc.)
• Expertise in creating and overseeing financial models for problem-solving and company forecasting

DESIDERED SPECIFICATIONS

• More than six years of experience locating missing or erroneous data, figuring out the underlying problem, and developing and executing an escalation plan
• More than six years of experience resolving challenging business problems by providing precise and prompt financial models, analyses, and suggestions that have a demonstrable positive effect on the company (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or consumer advantages) experience
• CPA or MBA
• Proficiency in SQL/ETL – Work experience with various financial systems (such as Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards) and large-scale data mining and reporting tools (such as SQL, MS Access, Essbase, and Cognos)
• Experience in providing variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and data interpretation