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Finance Manager, EU Central Operations Finance

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Amazon

1mo ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior Level
  • Madrid

AI generated summary

  • You need a Bachelor's degree, financial analysis experience, data reporting skills, expertise in Excel, SQL, and automation, plus knowledge in Operations or Supply Chain.
  • You will build financial models, oversee projects, generate insights, standardize reporting, mentor team members, automate tasks, manage data sets, and ensure accurate financial operations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
  • Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
  • Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
  • Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
  • Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
  • Relevant experience in a finance role including partnering with a variety of stakeholders across the business
  • Relevant experience of working within Operations, Supply Chain or Network design
  • Relevant experience working with Excel and large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as Python, SQL or Tableau
  • Relevant experience in financial modelling
  • Knowledge of SQL/ETL
  • Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
  • Experience in 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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
  • Relevant experience working with Excel, reporting tools and large-scale data mining tools, such as Power BI, Python, SQL, or Tableau

Responsibilities

  • Build financial models to drive business decisions and make judgement calls on challenges using your understanding of Amazon’s cost structure
  • Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issues
  • Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency, and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions
  • Own the financial and operational plan and financial reporting, create scalable processes and monitor teams for accuracy
  • Onboard, develop and mentor team members in areas of financial reporting for accuracy, create best practice materials and promote knowledge sharing
  • Standardize, consolidate, automate and enhance daily and weekly reporting across EU, cooperating with CF Finance and Ops, ACES, PE and Central Flows BP’s as primary customers
  • Identify, create and consolidate best practice reporting so BPs are using accurate data to make correct decisions
  • Proactively identify and scope out potential initiatives to support BP’s
  • Provide support to BP’s for adhoc requests with work received and prioritized via a SIM ticket queue
  • Identify analysis / reports that would benefit other sites – all EU, country or FC type – and scale accordingly
  • Identify repetitive requests for analysis and builds tools and reports to meet the demand to maximize automation of routine tasks
  • Create and maintain an automation roadmap for the Central Finance Organization
  • Build strong relationship with counterparties that are not its main customer in order to ensure that team work is not overlapping with other teams’ responsibilities
  • Has ownership of data sets incoming into its own server and deprecation of data sources / servers
  • Performing data sets checks for any data entering own cluster/server which further sources data for Central Finance owned tools and EU wide downstream teams dependent on data

FAQs

What qualifications are required for the Finance Manager position?

A Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics, business, or a quantitative role, along with relevant experience in a finance or operations context is required.

What experience is preferred for candidates applying for this role?

Candidates should have experience in applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs), building financial reports, process improvements, and financial modeling. Experience in operations, supply chain, or network design is also relevant.

What tools and software should candidates be familiar with?

Candidates should have relevant experience with Excel, large-scale data mining, and reporting tools such as Python, SQL, and Tableau.

Will the Finance Manager be responsible for mentoring team members?

Yes, the role involves onboarding, developing, and mentoring team members in areas of financial reporting and best practices.

What are the key responsibilities for the Finance Manager?

Key responsibilities include building financial models, leading projects, generating insights from financial data, owning financial and operational planning, and standardizing reporting across teams.

Is experience in continuous improvement projects essential for this role?

Yes, experience in participating in continuous improvement projects to enhance controllership with measurable results is required.

Are there opportunities for career development within this role?

Yes, the Finance Manager will have opportunities for career development through mentoring team members and leading significant projects.

Where is the position based?

The position can be hired at various finance hubs, including MAD15, MUC2, LHR16, LUX12, LIN1, CDG10, and PRG14.

Does this role involve collaboration with other teams?

Yes, the Finance Manager will collaborate with partners across different areas of the business to provide insights and drive operational performance.

What is the focus of the ACES-PE-CF-BRS-L&D Finance team?

The team focuses on driving process stabilization, standardization, and continuous improvement for the EU Network to establish best-in-class network performance.

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Amazon

Retail & Consumer Goods
Industry
10,001+
Employees
1994
Founded Year

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