Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) are hard pressed for both time and working capital. They want the best working capital options with transparent and effective cost, fast funds delivery when they need it, and service that makes their experience easier. This need presents tremendous opportunities for Amazon and our lending partners to step change the experience of SMB around the world enabling them to grow their businesses on and off Amazon, delight their customers, and make positive impact to the communities that they serve.
Amazon Small Medium Business Financing (SMBF) is expanding with the ambition to provide the world’s best-in-class customer experience, product solutions and credit products to our customers. Amazon’s Fintech lender, Amazon SMBF, seeks a Finance leader to be the CFO of our global lending business. In this role, you will own the entire SMBF portfolio, as well as be the thought leader for new product launches, working with the global lending team to drive meaningful growth. The team supports the Global Business Payments organization which provides working capital solutions to Sellers and Business-to-Business (B2B) buyers so that they can invest to grow their businesses.
We are seeking an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric Finance leader to join our team in Seattle to drive growth and expand our lending business to new areas. This role is cross functional, you will partner closely with finance, treasury, accounting, and product teams to help drive new projects to help growth and controllership for our lending organization.
Ideal candidates will have the following strengths:
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment
- The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions
- Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads
- An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth
- The ability to work cross-functionally with product, operations, marketing and BI teams
- Solid business judgment and controllership focus
- Strong financial modelling skills, including good knowledge of SQL and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Experience as a people leader
Key job responsibilities
The person in this role is responsible for long and short term financial planning, controllership, developing and reporting on weekly financial and operational performance metrics, and providing analytical and leadership support. This position will be a key risk/controllership gateway for the payments business and requires a candidate with strong communication and leadership skills. A portion of the time will be spent on ad hoc analysis to support the growing business’ needs. The B2B Payments Finance team works closely with a number of other finance and business teams, so any candidate should be able to work well with cross functional teams. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously. Strong analytical skills are required.
About the team
B2B Payments Finance offers a rich learning experience and an opportunity to develop professionally. We are a young business that will challenge you to weigh in on decisions that have long-term strategic importance, and to produce insightful analytics that help us accelerate growth. You will work closely with business partners and get exposure to senior leaders while you become a subject matter expert. We are looking for an individual who can influence business partners to drive results and who welcomes the challenge of building structure while supporting high growth in a fledgling organization with senior management visibility.
