Finance Manager, Canada & NA Expansion Finance, Canada Stores Finance

Want to help build the leading e-commerce finance team? At Amazon, it’s our goal to be the most customer-centric company where customers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We are seeking a Finance Manager to be a key member of the Canada Stores Finance team.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the strategic direction of one of Amazon’s fastest growing and most successful businesses, with a focus on capturing growth opportunities and driving profitability improvement. The CA Retail Finance team supports the core category business (Hardlines, Softlines, Consumables) and various fast-growing and highly impactful programs (e.g., Daily Essentials, Subscribe and Save, Coupons, Private Brands, Amazon Business etc.). We are looking for an analytical, self-driven, and innovative Finance Manager who is able to distill complex problems into solutions that drive business insights and finance process improvement. As a key member of the Canada finance team, you will develop strong business partnerships by frequently engaging with leadership teams, vendor managers, marketing, and operations partners to share financial insights, set strategy, and influence business decisions.

The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and an ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.


Key job responsibilities
- Owns Profit and Loss Statement across both 1P & 3P Business for their GL(s) (i.e. acts as the CFO of their business).
- Managing weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reporting including operational metrics.
- Communicating financial and business results to senior leaders; going beyond the “what happened”, and focusing on the “what can we do about it”.
- Seeing around corners for the next big opportunity and helping to scale those insights to your GL Counterparts across CA and NAS.
- Gathering analytical insights and developing financial frameworks that inform and measure investment decisions and help set the long-term strategy.
- Performing deep dive analyses to develop recommendations that impact the decision making of senior leadership; this is across profitability, topline, and cost out initiatives.
- Ensure a high level of financial controllership, maintaining data integrity.
- Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to take deep dive findings and right size insights for their business partners, ultimately driving financially accretive actions.
- Serve as a key finance business partner, working directly with the business finance team and other internal stakeholders to provide forecasting, deep dive analysis, strategic recommendations, and executive commentary.
- Increase efficiency by driving our Automation efforts.
- Drive growth and profitability through business partnership and financial analysis around Operational Expenses.
- Reporting on the financial performance and leading in the preparation of weekly, monthly and annual financial reviews.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or MBA and 7+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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
- 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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