Books Pricing & Incentives Finance Manager, Demand Finance

About This Role

Lead the finance function for the Amazon Books Pricing, Payment, and Incentive team, providing decision support and strategic guidance for new development initiatives, opportunities, and demand acceleration projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning and forecasting, including developing and implementing standardized financial reports across multiple businesses.
• Implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including Operating Plans, Long Term Plans, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions.
• Develop and maintain key weekly financial and operational performance metrics, including creation of KPIs.
• Support FP&A process, headcount tracking and goals tracking, reviewing and streamlining existing processes.
• Conduct ad hoc financial analyses and new project evaluations.
• Lead and participate as the key finance stakeholder in cross functional teams.
• Controllership of monthly financial reporting.
• Partner with the business on deep dives, opportunity sizing, and forecasts that support strategic initiatives.
• Identify operating improvements to reduce administrative burden.

Requirements

• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 5+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience

Qualifications

• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

Nice to Have

• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
• 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
• MBA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making

Skills

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Benefits

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