Amazon India | Finance Manager, INFC

Responsibilities

• The role owns the planning and management of costs billed by third-party warehousing partners across the network - optimizing rate card structures, reviewing contracts before they are entered into for commercial terms and cost exposure, and working with key stakeholders across Operations and Procurement to identify and execute cost-reduction initiatives.
• The role partners with Procurement on rate card negotiations with third-party warehousing partners and provides the financial analysis behind each negotiation and commercial decision.
• Responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and reporting models for the first mile 3P network.
• Partner with teams across Operations and Procurement to drive cost out initiatives and optimal cross functional decisions that maximize Amazon's long-term free cash flow.
• Own rate card structures and provide the financial analysis behind partner negotiations and commercial decisions, including reviewing contracts for commercial terms and cost exposure before they are entered into.
• Own the month-end close (MEC) for the first mile 3P network - including partner requisitions and POs, and controls over partner billing.
• Partner with Procurement to drive YoY cost optimization through rate card negotiations with third-party warehousing partners.
• Develop and maintain key reporting metrics and review mechanisms for the segment.
• Drive adoption of AI and automation to reduce manual effort across planning, close, and reporting.
• Everything we do is through the lens of controllership and to increase goodness for customers – we are home to continuous improvement champions, automation advocates, and all who love to work at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial finance business partnering or FP&A (at a multinational organisation), or experience or equivalent experience in finance roles.
• Experience building or deploying automation or AI tools in a finance function.

Amazon India

Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookshop and is today one of the world's largest companies, spanning online retail, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), digital media, devices and advertising. It is headquartered in Seattle and listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Amazon launched its Indian marketplace, Amazon.in, in 2013, and its businesses in India now include the marketplace, Amazon Pay, Amazon Business, Prime Video and AWS, which runs two Indian cloud regions — Mumbai (2016) and Hyderabad (2022). Its Hyderabad campus, opened in 2019, was at the time Amazon's largest campus building anywhere in the world.

Beyond serving Indian customers, Amazon's India offices handle a significant share of the company's global finance work: finance operations (accounts payable, receivables and payments), controllership and accounting, worldwide direct and indirect tax reporting, financial planning and business finance for its retail, AWS and payments businesses, and audit, risk and compliance programmes. These roles suit CA, CMA, CPA, ACCA and MBA (Finance) profiles as well as B.Com and M.Com graduates.

• Industry: E-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital payments and logistics
• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA (parent: Amazon.com, Inc.); India operations based in Bengaluru
• In India: Corporate offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune, with fulfilment and delivery centres across India