Finance Manager, Global Procurement Finance, Controls & Risk

Description

How does Amazon continue to grow its capacity to deliver for customers in new ways? What new types of operations will Amazon add to its portfolio as it innovates order fulfillment and delivery standards? How can Amazon become best in class in operational excellence?

Who we are: The Procurement team in the Global Procurement Organization (GPO) is dedicated to answering the questions above, which drives the Amazon flywheel. The GPO Finance team validates procurement methodologies, supports vendor negotiations and strategy, and delivers analysis to identify controls and risks opportunities and benefits impacting category management and procurement operations. We are looking for a curious person who wants to learn, develop and grow. The candidate will collaborate with many procurement colleagues and is a trustworthy business partner. You value diversity, have fun on the job and want to be part of a growing company and team.

Team Exposure: This role collaborates closely with a broad range of global finance and business leaders in Procurement, Engineering, Construction, and Operations teams towards controllership and risk functions. The role also partners with stakeholders across technical projects & software development teams, capital planning, compliance, risks and controls. This role involves collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data and creating meaningful reports to lead business improvement and driving controls and policy compliance across the global procurement organization. This role also maintains project oversight and drives initiatives and policy reviews in addition to partnering with category management on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the scalability and efficiency of the procurement organization.

Success in this role: The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon. You bring excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions.

About the role:

Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager within Procurement Operations Finance to define, create, analyze and influence Global Procurement Operations Finance to support and drive controllership within global procurement decisions. This role will have heavy impact and high visibility to essential, business-critical processes, and will require interactions with Directors and VP’s within Operations and Finance. The position will partner with stakeholders such as the Operations business team, engineering services, and Finance teams across WW Operations. You will leverage your educational and applied work experience to lead initiatives to streamline planning/reporting, as well as identify investment and cost savings opportunities within the Fulfillment Center network.

Basic Qualifications

• A degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field

• Relevant experience in a finance role including partnering with a variety of stakeholders across the business

• Relevant experience in managing people

• Relevant experience working with Excel and large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as Python, SQL or Tableau

• Relevant experience in financial modelling

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced or master’s degree in finance, economics or mathematics, such as a CA, CMA, CWA or MBA

• Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment

• Experience working in large teams or at a national/multinational organisation

• Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influence decisions

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