About this role
Description
We are seeking a Senior Finance Manager to partner with the VP of US Prime Marketing Tech in driving continued growth for Amazon's Prime program in the US. Prime is one of Amazon's key global business pillars and aims to be the world's most loved membership program. Hundreds of millions of Prime members worldwide enjoy free fast shipping, exclusive shopping deals, premium entertainment, and a host of other benefits.
This role provides a vantage point to Amazon's US Stores business from both a customer and category lens. It presents a great opportunity to partner with a highly innovative marketing and tech org in the world's largest Prime locale. The role has a unique blend of finance and analytics in understanding customer behavior across the membership lifecycle and translating those insights into financial results.
Key job responsibilities
The role requires strong analytical skills, solid financial acumen, comfort with creating data driven narratives, and sound business judgment. The successful candidate will have a strong grasp of the economics of an online retailing business. They will have the ability to both Think Big and Dive Deep to drive continued innovation, growth, and profitability within a globally scaled program. The Senior Manager will oversee a team of senior financial analysts and finance managers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Co-own SVP level goals on Prime Member Balance and Per Member Gross Merchandise Sales; build forecasts based on historic trends de-averaged across key customer / category dimensions as part of annual and quarterly planning cycles
- Support the US Prime team in understanding business results; analyze performance variances for a range of business and financial metrics across the membership lifecycle, and synthesize actionable insights
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend key Prime product and marketing initiatives to deliver program goals; build financial models to assess return on investment against guardrails
- Partner with finance teams from Worldwide Prime and other Prime benefits (e.g. Prime Video) on product and finance initiatives impacting the US as lead market
Basic Qualifications
- 12+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 8+ years of spearheading strategic cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable financial results and advance organizational objectives experience
- 8+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience
- 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 8+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 8+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
- 5+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience with Tableau, Python, SQB, Quicksight, Cognos or or other BI packages
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,000.00 - 207,000.00 USD annually