Finance Manager, WW Pricing

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

At Amazon, Finance has the unique challenge of stewarding and bolstering
tremendous business growth through applying financial acumen, objectivity and
leadership, while staying nimble and adaptive to evolving business needs. Amazon
Finance drives direct impact by being a hand-in-hand business partner in
developing, measuring, and executing on our long term strategy to invent on
behalf of our customers. To do so, we look for exceptional Finance Managers who
possess the leadership to influence, a bias for action, and the passion to think
big while driving business results. We are looking for an experienced Finance
Manager to join the WW Pricing Finance team.

Pricing is integral to Amazon’s ability to deliver on its everyday low price
promise to customers. With millions of products available on Amazon, Pricing
develops technology to compute and publish prices for every retail item in
Amazon’s global catalog, delivering competitive prices across full range of
products and automating decision-making.

The Finance Manager will be a critical partner to the Director of Pricing and
support financial modeling and decision making processes for strategic
initiatives across the global Stores business. The successful candidate will
have excellent analytical, financial modeling, and communication skills. They
will possess strong business partnership and project management skills and
collaborate effectively with stakeholders. The candidate will also possess the
leadership to influence, bias for action, the passion to think big while driving
business results, and developing a world class team.

This role will own end-to-end financial reporting and analysis for pricing,
working backwards from customer needs to deliver actionable insights. This
includes building scalable financial models and conducting deep-dive analyses to
uncover variance drivers and identify opportunities for optimization. The role
will partner with cross-functional teams across multiple geographies to
implement best practices and drive standardization at scale. The role will
deliver written and verbal communications that are data-driven, concise, and
compelling to influence senior leadership decisions.

The Finance team for this role supports the Global Pricing team, whose vision is
to provide customers with low, competitive prices across our entire selection,
simplify discovery of our best offers, and earn trust by transparently helping
customers understand price quality and value.

Requirements

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis 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

Nice To Haves

• 6+ 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

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the financial planning and analysis processes for Amazon’s Global Pricing team.
• Work closely with pricing team to set up, execute and analyze pricing experiments to drive long term free cash flow.
• Provide critical insights to the Pricing leadership team by owning weekly and monthly reporting processes.
• Build and maintain in depth knowledge across key business areas by staying current on initiatives, challenges/opportunities across the business.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager