Finance Manager, MENA Finance

DESCRIPTION

Amazon strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers what they want – low prices, vast selection, and convenience. Amazon is expanding its presence in the Middle East and North Africa. We are looking for a dynamic and accomplished Finance Manager who can generate actionable insights and develop tools and mechanisms that will equip our teams to drive growth and profitability.
As a Finance Manager, you will establish and maintain financial controls and processes through continuous auditing and reporting of both inputs and outputs. The ideal candidate relishes working with large volumes of data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts, and, above all else, is passionate about data and analytics. The candidate is comfortable with business intelligence tools and passionately partners with the business to identify strategic opportunities where data-backed insights drive value creation. An effective communicator, the candidate crisply translates analysis result into executive-facing business terms. The candidate works aptly with internal and external teams to push the projects across the finishing line. The candidate is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big (while paying careful attention to detail), and enjoys working in a fast-paced and global team.

Key job responsibilities
Build review routines with the local business, including roll-out and training on related tools
• Own and develop robust mechanisms to inspect growth and profitability of our business, working closely with related business teams
• Establish controllership and approval mechanisms to manage day-to-day profitability
• Invent, simplify, and automate management reporting, working closely with owners in business and Business Intelligence teams across the Amazon world
• Provide strategic guidance, tactical direction, and decision support to business and finance partners
• Lead key analytical projects and contribute to reviews that influence senior leadership decision making
• Develop financial plans for both short and long- term planning exercises, aligning inputs with senior stakeholders worldwide

A day in the life
As a Finance Managers at this level, you take a hands-on role to boost our business performance and efficiency. You establish tight controls over our financials and develop a deep understanding of the mechanics behind our data, ensuring financial reporting is always accurate. You’ll collaborate with partners in different areas worldwide to provide insights on improvements in our operational performance. That will involve deep diving into data, managing our planning processes, and giving team members guidance on more ambiguous areas of our financial environment.

Key job responsibilities
Building financial and operational analysis to drive and influence data-driven senior leadership decisions.
Use a range of metrics and models to forecast, link operational objectives to financials, and determine opportunities for improvement
Business partner cross functionally with key senior stakeholders, providing finance support and challenge
Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issue
Produce a financial and operational plan to support business priorities, and lead on associated projects
Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency, and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions
Support with training new team members and contribute to onboarding plans
Maintain and build tools for your team to support knowledge sharing and help to standardize processes across teams

A day in the life
You will play a core role in a number of projects at any one time. By tracking performance metrics, analysing data and building financial models, you’ll identify where we can drive better efficiency and productivity. You’ll also show us how different scenarios impact our business from a financial perspective, which is vital for many of our stakeholders to make business decisions.

This role will allow you to work independently, whilst also working closely with our partners to provide the insights they need. You’ll be predominantly based in one of our corporate offices but may also require to travel to sites on an ad-hoc basis

About the team
We thrive on making lightning-fast decisions while effortlessly navigating the complexities of stakeholder management? We handle ambiguity with the grace of a tightrope walker, all while embracing the thrill of venturing down the road less traveled

As a vital component of the MENA Finance team, you’ll have the opportunity to support one of our key pillars, where your penchant for high-velocity decision-making and your ability to captivate even the most seasoned leaders will be invaluable assets. Brace yourself for a steep learning curve that promises both exhilaration and immense satisfaction, as you embark on a journey to craft something truly unique.

So, if you’re ready to embrace the challenge and leave your mark on our dynamic team, we invite you to step forward and seize this extraordinary opportunity. Just remember, the road less traveled is often the one that leads to the most rewarding destinations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
– 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles 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
– 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan 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
– MBA, or CPA
– Knowledge of SQL/ETL
– 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

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