This is an exciting opportunity to partner cross-functionally to ensure informed decision making, innovation and sustainability in processes for the Middle Mile (Sort Center/Surface Transportation) network.
Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.
The role focuses on supporting reporting and financial planning cycles and identifying continuous improvement opportunities across internal and external stakeholders to define, design and maintain performance measurements, reporting and reviews.
A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to do financial analyses for executive-level business leaders to support a network of sites, identify high priority projects to improve results and drive cost reductions with stakeholders, create new measures for business effectiveness, and recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability.
A successful candidate will be able to effectively influence business partners, provide sound and thoughtful decision-making, and manage competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. Candidates should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with leadership is common.
Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidations utilizing financial systems and advance excel functions-
- Create documents that provide clear, meaningful and actionable insights about the performance of the business which is shared with dozens of senior leaders.
- Provide financial support to business partners on its key initiatives that improve the quality of deliveries, speed of delivery and/or reduce costs
- Root cause analysis and uncover core issues using data, and provide guidance for business partners and data analytics to improve data quality to make better decision
- communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
A day in the life
A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to lead root-cause analysis and uncover core issues to drive cost reductions with stakeholders, manage, evaluate and create meaningful business reporting, and build and maintain complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance.
