Finance Manager – Strategic Investment Analytics

Job Description

Finance Manager, Amazon Rapid Logistics | Amazon

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Amazon, located in Nashville, TN or Bellevue, WA. Amazon is a large organization that designs and launches new businesses, focusing on rapid logistics and unique fulfillment capabilities like Sub Same Day. This role is crucial for fusing customer experience, operational knowledge, and financial understanding to create a holistic picture, influencing strategic direction, driving operational excellence, and making sound investment and expansion decisions for high-growth businesses, ultimately driving long-term profitability.

The TL;DR
• Role: Manager
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Bellevue, WA
• Pay: $85900–$163200 yearly
• Team: Strategy team responsible for investment analytics, new initiatives, and operational models.
• Mission: To continuously improve the customer experience and drive long-term profitability for a portfolio of high-growth logistics businesses.
• Tech Stack: SQL, ETL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos, Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards

What You’ll Actually Do
• Investment Decisions: Build complex financial models and perform sophisticated analyses to drive investment decisions for new business initiatives in the SSD network.
• Capital Planning: Lead capital planning and optimization efforts for the growing SSD network, including building launch strategies, capex forecasting, allocation, and ROI analysis.
• Business Partnerships: Partner with business teams to define financial and non-financial trade-offs, making thoughtful judgment calls in ambiguous environments.
• Process Improvement: Develop and implement scalable financial solutions to improve tools, technology, and processes.
• Strategic Communication: Create clear and compelling narratives to communicate complex financial concepts to stakeholders and define strategy for key business initiatives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field. This is a Manager-level position.
• Experience: 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree with 3+ years of finance experience. Proven experience identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause, and creating/implementing an escalation plan. Demonstrated ability to solve complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact.
• Skills: Financial modeling, sophisticated analysis, capital planning, capex forecasting, ROI analysis, data integrity, strong verbal and written communication.
• Bonus: MBA or CPA, knowledge of SQL/ETL, experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos), experience with financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), and experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.