Principal Finance Manager, NA Stores Finance

Saved job description

Want to help build Earth’s leading e-commerce finance team? At Amazon, it’s our goal to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

To support our continued growth, we are looking for the most exceptional finance professionals to join our North America Stores Financial Planning & Analysis team. Our team provides strategic support to NA Stores CFO, CEO and senior leadership on planning, analysis, and reporting. As the central place the company looks to for an understanding of financial performance, we play a major role in driving business decisions.

In this role, you will play a key role in processes essential to the heartbeat of Amazon Stores Finance, including month-end-close, quarter-end-close, topline reporting, and developing best practices for FP&A which have impact across the company. This role works closely with the WW Stores, Insights, Planning, Analytics, Technology (IPAT) and the business finance teams. The Principal Finance Manager drives key projects and will be a key business partner to the business finance teams, Finance Operations, Accounting, and Tax. We are looking for an experienced finance professional who is adaptable, capable of exercising high judgment, making informed decisions and insists on the highest standards.

Key job responsibilities

Key resource in planning process for NA Stores. Specifically, this role is responsible for working with business partners to pull together a story that tells us how North America Stores is thinking about forward looking plans that will be shared with Amazon Stores most senior leaders.

The Principal Finance Manager will work with business partners to gain a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of our plans and deliver insightful analyses and narratives to Amazon’s executive team members.

Leverage Cognos/TM1, Apliqo, and other corporate financial systems to support deep dive analysis and results summarization in response to CFO/CEO needs.

Engage with business finance teams to support understanding and timeliness of financial deliverables.

Obsess over leveraging AI to drive efficiencies in our processes.

Partner with the business and other Corporate FP&A teams to create workback calendars that support key meeting dates and ensure adequate review and preparation time.

Requirements: - 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

- 7+ years of finance technology, forecast & budgeting, or other finance-focused competency experience

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

- 8+ years of spearheading strategic cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable financial results and advance organizational objectives experience

- 8+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience