Amazon India | Finance Manager, North America Transport Controllership

Responsibilities

• You will learn to produce insightful financial reporting, build robust and repeatable financial processes, controls, and perform in-depth analysis on transportation spend numbers.
• Given the nature of our business, you will learn to venture into unknown territory, and learn how to succeed in a new space.
• This role partners across Transportation, Fulfillment, Supply Chain, and Technology teams to improve efficiencies while improving customer experience globally.
• This role works with business intelligence engineers, accountants, accounting managers, data engineers, program and product managers.
• This role creates a “learn by doing” environment by engaging with business and technology to promote and encourage continued customer focus.
• You will anticipate and resolve bottlenecks while balancing business needs and escalating where appropriate.
• This role will work in a dynamic environment working with some of the world's largest data sets in logistics costing.
• Drives continuous improvement and standardization of processes, including implementation of best practices in the controllership area.
• Supports financial reporting and operating planning, demonstrating finance acumen and ability to quickly adapt to different business needs.
• Prepares concise documents, tailored to various levels of stakeholders, and collaborates with operations’ leaders and other teams.
• Participates in hiring, developing, and mentoring peers and team members. Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities.
• Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
• Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon.
• Delivers weekly/monthly financial close.
• Uses financial systems, SQL, and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.
• Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.

Qualifications

• Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon.
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience.
• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience.
• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience

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