Description

Amazon seeks an experienced Finance Manager to play a key role on the Amazon Devices Finance Team. Over the past decade Amazon has developed a number of market-leading, innovative, and fast-growing digital and mobile businesses including Kindle, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, and Echo. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial minded candidate who wants to work in a start-up like environment, is passionate about hardware and digital experiences, and is interested in directly supporting new emerging products.

The successful candidate will entrepreneurial by nature, analytical in approach, have a demonstrated ability to develop financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions and be able to leverage their project management skills to drive business objectives. This role requires a self-starter with superb business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and a track record of being an advisor to the business. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) and be able to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions.

This role also has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.

This role can be located in Amazon offices in: Sunnyvale, CA; or the Hawthorne/LA, CA area.

Key job responsibilities

• Create and implement revenue and cost models to be incorporated into business reviews

• Supporting product and portfolio scenario analysis with financial modeling and data-driven recommendations

• Project manage financial deliverables aligned to business objectives

• Financial Planning & Analysis, both near and long term forecasts including complex large scale capital planning

• Create and implement financial and operating performance metrics, identifying key call outs and drivers to senior management

• Use your project management skills to build new and improve existing processes

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

Hawthorne, CA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

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

• 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $81,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.