How often have you had an opportunity to drive impact across different companies? The Worldwide Grocery Stores FP&A team is looking to hire a strong and self-starter Finance Manager to support planning cycles and strategic projects across Whole Foods Markets, Fresh, Go and other ventures in the grocery space.
The Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) FP&A team is dedicated to working closely with business and finance leadership to generate key insight for decision making across Whole Foods Markets, Fresh, Go and new projects. We track performance, formulate the medium to long term financial and strategic plans, and seek to increase efficiency and profitability by analyzing financial and operational results. As we continue to grow, we are looking for individuals who enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across WWGS Finance and within the broader Amazon Finance organization (FGBS).
We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our Planning team to support planning cycles (e.g., OP1/3YF, OP2, Guidance, 10YF) and strategic projects across our banners, including deep diving central allocations to reduce opex, modelling and automating a high-level 3-year plan, and standardizing our P&Ls. This role supports the senior leadership team within WWGS and will own delivering key planning reports, leading periodic reviews, providing valuable insight for financial planning, and recommending cost-saving opportunities.
This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across our organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. The leader must be effective at working through teams across the WW Grocery Stores organization to consolidate and articulate the overall drivers of current and future performance as well as providing timely and accurate insight to Amazon senior leadership. That means the leader is a collaborator and good at stitching together multiple inputs to tell an accurate and insightful story of what’s happening. The leader needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. Excellent analytical and verbal/written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are self-starters, analytical, collaborate and influence business/finance partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment, and think long-term.
Key job responsibilities
- Support planning cycles (e.g., OP1/3YF, OP2, Guidance, 10YF), including updating a variety of financials reports and P&Ls, conducting ad-hoc analysis, and collecting key insight from finance partners.
- Drive strategic projects across our banners, including optimizing opex allocations, modelling and automating a high-level 3-year plan, and standardizing our P&Ls across banners, channels, and reporting cycle (e.g., MEC, Planning).
- Provide valuable insight for financial planning based on current performance.
- Analyze and recommend cost-saving opportunities.
- Support WW Amazon Stores Finance (IPAT) and Corporate FP&A to communicate WW Grocery Stores plans and performance to Amazon's senior leadership and Board of Directors.
- Continue developing the team’s vision and establish a positive team culture.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- MBA, or CPA
- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.