Do you want to be part of an organization that is designing and launching new business? Do you enjoy fusing customer experience, operational knowledge, and financial understanding to create a holistic picture? Do you enjoy driving positive culture and team experience through inclusion and engagement? If so, Rapid and Rural Logistics (R2L) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager with a record of achieving results.
The Rapid and Rural Logistics team covers a portfolio of high-growth businesses with unique fulfillment and operational capabilities such as Sub Same Day (SSD), Rural Super Rural (RSR), and Amazon Today. Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses. We experiment constantly, fail fast, and never stop learning.
This role will lead the financial support for SSD Distribution Centers (DCs) under the roof operational performance as well as support long term DC network strategic initiatives. This individual will partner with Site Leadership, Operations, and Supply Chain teams to drive operational efficiency and optimize variable cost for the SSD DC Network. As the SSD DC network grows in both size and complexity, this individual will also support new site launches, expanded site functionality initiatives, and cost optimization initiatives requiring financial modeling and analysis as well as cross-functional partnership. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They will collaborate with executives and business units across Amazon, bring excellent verbal and written communication skills, and prioritize the most impactful projects and programs to drive businesses forward. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity of building innovative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that impact company-wide strategic decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Creating financial models and plans, interpreting large data sets, drawing conclusions, and making recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon
- Building effective business partnerships and using active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner
- Identifying opportunities to reduce operational costs through data and financial analysis inclusive of proactively resolving defects, benchmarking key performance indicators, and developing new metrics
- Implementing solutions to simplify, improve, automate, standardize and scale processes
