Finance Manager – Financial Strategy

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 786,118-person organization that designs and launches new businesses, particularly within its rapid logistics domain. This role is crucial for influencing the strategic direction, driving operational excellence, and making sound investment and expansion decisions within high-growth businesses like Sub Same Day (SSD). The position requires fusing customer experience, operational knowledge, and financial understanding to create a holistic picture, continuously improving customer experience while driving long-term profitability.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Nashville, TN; Bellevue, WA
• Pay: $85900–$163200 yearly
• Team: Strategy team within AMRL Finance, responsible for investment analytics, new initiatives, and operational models.
• Mission: Own investment analytics, new initiatives, and operational models to support strategic growth and long-term profitability within Amazon’s Rapid Logistics network.
• Tech Stack: SQL, ETL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos, Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Modeling: Build complex financial models and perform sophisticated analyses to drive investment decisions for new business initiatives in the Sub Same Day (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.
• Strategic Partnership: Partner with business teams to define financial and non-financial trade-offs, making thoughtful judgment calls in ambiguous environments.
• Data Management & Solutions: Identify and solve complex data integrity issues while developing and implementing scalable financial solutions to improve tools, technology, and processes.
• Communication & Reporting: Create clear and compelling narratives to communicate complex financial concepts to stakeholders.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science). This is a Finance Manager role.
• Experience: 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience.
• Skills: Building complex financial models, performing sophisticated analyses, leading capital planning and optimization, capex forecasting, ROI analysis, defining financial/non-financial trade-offs, identifying and solving complex data integrity issues, developing scalable financial solutions, creating clear and compelling narratives.
• Bonus: MBA or CPA, 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data and creating/implementing escalation plans, 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models/analysis/recommendations, knowledge of SQL/ETL, experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos), and experience with financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).