Finance Manager, Amazon Transportation Services

Job description

Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) 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!

North America ATS is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Finance Manager to support Transportation Operations Management (TOM). 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 planning teams as well as Finance and Operations Support groups.

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. 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

Controllership & Budget Ownership

Own the budget, financial performance, and controllership of your respective area. Manage spend against plan, investigate variances to root cause, and execute financial processes with the attention to detail and controls compliance the role demands.

Business Leadership Partnership

Serve as the embedded finance partner to your business leaders, earning a seat at the table as they run their yard operations. Build the trust that brings finance in early, and translate the financial picture into decisions on labor, spend, and performance.

Robust Modeling & Business Partnership

Build and maintain the financial models that answer difficult business questions and support senior management decisions. Deliver balanced analyses of financial and operational trade-offs to facilitate informed decision-making.

Cost Management & Continuous Improvement

Dive deep into the operational drivers behind cost to surface the "why" behind performance. Partner with site leadership to improve labor efficiency and reduce cost to serve, bringing a Think Big mindset to structural opportunities.