• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in a financial role
• Experience in Microsoft Excel and MS Office
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and, when the box arrived, you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you?

Amazon Logistics (AMZL) is Amazon's "Last Mile" delivery service, responsible for delivering packages to customers across the world. The AMZL network is undergoing quick growth and change on a global scale. Our teams are changing the way we interact with customers every single day and solving some of the biggest logistical issues facing not just Amazon, but the entire industry. AMZL is developing an innovative world-class Last Mile operation with a portfolio of buildings, vehicles, and technology to deliver customers' packages on time and tailored to our ever-changing customer expectations. AMZL Finance teams partner closely with global cross-functional business and tech teams to support this rapidly expanding business; promoting controllership, innovation, productivity, and cost-effective operations across the network in a fast-paced environment.

OVERVIEW
We are looking for a Finance Manager that is excited to join a tech company that is constantly improving and re-imagining the logistics industry. Our candidate should be passionate about using data to solve big, complex and ambiguous problems. The candidate should be eager to continuously learn and improve their skills. You should be attentive to which details make all the difference. Do you want to contribute shaping the new standard of shopping? If so, come and join the AMZL Finance Team.

As part of the AMZL Finance team, you will join a team that is motivated about numbers, data, and how to use them to generate insights and improve our business. We support and influence the AMZL organization by providing a holistic and financial perspective, we are the trusted business advisors. We collaborate with our partners to ensure leaders to have the most up to date and reliable information, and work with them to make sure AMZL is making the best possible decisions.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and the top line
• Grow and collaborate in a fast-pace environment where every day is day one
• Being surrounded by inspiring and diverse individuals
• Learn from people and cooperate with a wide variety of professional backgrounds
• Ability to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral, geographical or functional moves

Internal job description

Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager to support a fast-growing logistic activity within our European Amazon Logistics Operations Finance team. We are looking for a smart and creative individual to manage finance related activities, implement standardized controllership, reporting and planning processes for the fixed cost of Delivery Stations in all EU countries.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and will be a creative and analytical problem solver.

Key job responsibilities

• Leverage Amazon Logistic metrics to identify cost out opportunities by linking up operations and financials. Understands the details of the cost structure to make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be difficult to procure.
• Build trusted partnership with the business to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions promoting business improvements and cost reductions. Communicates data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Your communications drive critical business actions.
• Identifies risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps. Identify opportunities and lead projects to streamline processes and reports
• Supervise and own the Financial and operational planning processes to produce a challenging/stretch/bold yet solid operational plan. Supervise and own all Month-end procedures including accruals and variance analysis between scenarios (actuals, Plan, Forecast...)
• Hire, develop and mentor peers and team members, while promoting knowledge-sharing

A day in the life

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps
• Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
• Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.
• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.
• Passion for diving into the vast and complex details of productivity and cost measurements
• Willingness to support an unpopular opinion if it is in favor of the customer
• Manage and prioritize workload and work towards multiple deadlines
• Demonstrated business acumen while influencing and managing cross-functional relationships
• Action-oriented in solving challenging business and technical issues. Detail oriented and a passion for data with the ability to accurately summarize and share the relevant details

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