Finance Manager, Freight External Truck Load - Dallas, United States - Amazon

Description

Amazon Freight connects our customers and our shippers. We combine people, technology and products to deliver for our customers at the lowest possible cost. Surface Transportation is the conveyor belt to connect the entire Amazon supply chain. We are a technology company that executes transportation, and we get to do it all at a scale that nobody has ever seen

We love what we do. We have an incredible team in Finance that works hard to change the industry. We are inventing new things each and every day. We rolled out technology in the last two years that rivals anything inside of the transportation space in the last 100 years. We are growing and getting to lead people every single day. As our business grows, we are going to use the same technology and the same standard best practices to build and invent all over the world. If you are interested in growing something new and different, there is an opportunity to do it inside of this space.

Amazon Freight Finance is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Finance Manager to join its Transportation Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to create and innovate on behalf of our customers and build the transportation experience of the future. This role will have heavy impact and high visibility to the long-term strategy for the business, and it will require strong partnership with the Operations teams as well as Finance, Accounting and Technology. Experience with this team opens up amazing career opportunities across Amazon, such as senior roles supporting an impressive array of business areas, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally. The role will require an individual to deep dive into business input drivers, dive into complex data pool, and use insights to influence business decisions. The role is ideally suited for a candidate who has demonstrated an exceptional financial modeling and statistical analysis and strong verbal and written skills.

If you like taking a larger scope identifying the most cost effective and safest way to deliver to our customer you will enjoy transportation. This entire system has to move like a symphony and it has to be orchestrated. It is an incredible math problem that we have to solve; we have to put statistics and financial models behind it. In this role you will have a high level of visibility and partner with cross functional teams. We help others understand finance and are the trusted business advisors to our business teams.

We are looking for a leader who exhibits excellent attention to detail and is comfortable with ambiguity. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. Regular collaboration with executives and various business units across Amazon will allow you the opportunity to exhibit your verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to improve and create new measures for business effectiveness, innovate creative solutions utilizing large scale data mining tools, and identify high priority projects to maximize results for key stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

Own Shipper level Margin Analysis and partner with Sales, Pricing and other teams to address issues in margin.

Perform the Cost dive deep in partnership with Cost Planning and Execution team and build template to show weekly, monthly and YTD performance including commentary for leadership reviews

Partner with Cross Functional teams on cost allocation and its methodology to ensure accurate financial reporting

Own E2E CAPEX planning for Truck Load and Less-Than Truck Load business through building of ROI, FCF, PBP, and IRR models and supporting the CAR approval. This includes integration of our processes with Central CAPEX Planning team and developing a working model including reviews with senior leaders.

Identify opportunities to resolve defects proactively and improve, scale, or simplify finance tools across teams and organizations.

Collaborate with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams and partner finance teams to ensure seamless integration of the Truck Load plan into the overall Worldwide Operations and Amazon Inbound Transportations financial plans. Foster strong communication and coordination to drive alignment across the organization.

Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA

Basic Qualifications

BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)

5+ years of finance experience, or Masters degree and 3+ years of finance experience

Preferred Qualifications

CPA (or Equivalent) or MBA or Masters degree or CFA and 3+ years of finance experience

Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Demonstrable Finance experience, with ability to partner with senior leadership, and produce analyses that aids strategic decision-making

Advanced proficiency in Excel experience working with large-scale data mining, and using reporting tools (i.e. Excel, ETL, SQL, Tableau)

5+ Experience in building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving

Strategic thinker with a results-driven mindset and a passion for driving continuous improvement and innovation

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $81,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.