Finance Manager, Digital and Emerging Market Payment Finance
DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
Amazon seeks a Finance Manager to play a key role on the Digital and Emerging Market (DEP) Payment Finance team, primarily supporting Amazon's Mexico payment business including Co-branded Credit Card or Debit Card, Installments, Shop with Points, Instant Payments, Cash Payment Products, Cost of Payment, and other local payment products. The person will be part of a team responsible for long and short term financial planning, controllership of monthly financial reporting, developing and reporting on weekly/monthly financial and operational performance metrics, and providing analytical support for Senior Business Management.
This position will be a key risk/controllership gateway for the payments business and requires a candidate with strong communication and leadership skills. A portion of the time will be spent on ad hoc analysis to support the growing business needs. The finance team works closely with the business teams, so any candidate should be able to work well with cross functional teams. Candidates must have superior attention to detail, project and team management skills and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously. Strong analytical skills are required.
Key job responsibilities
Successful candidates will have the following strengths:
Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.
The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions.
Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth.
Solid business judgment and controllership focus.
Strong PC modeling skills, including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access, and SQL.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelor's degree or certificate of completion of studies required and at least 8+ years of professional background
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 8+ 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 CFA
- 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
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