Location: Chicago,IL, USA
Description
How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with disrupting a trillion dollar industry?
The Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) FP&A organization is dedicated to working closely with the business leadership team to formulate the medium to long term financial and strategic plans for grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon. We seek to increase efficiency and profitability by analyzing financial and operational results to better understand business performance and communicate results to senior management.
As we continue to grow, we are looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon and within the broader WWGS Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams, to lead new programs and initiatives, and to manage larger teams within the company.
We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our team! This role directly supports the senior leadership team within WW Grocery Stores and will have broad responsibilities, including supporting our established business i.e. Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go on financial reporting, analyses and planning cycles as well as various strategic projects. This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across our organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. The leader must be effective at working through teams across the WW Grocery Stores organization to consolidate and articulate the overall drivers of current and future performance. That means the leader is good at stitching together multiple inputs to tell an accurate and insightful story of whats happening. Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment thats more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are a self-starter, they collaborate and influence business partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment and think long-term.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go FP&A teams to drive improved/automated financial reporting and planning processes.
- Build models that help us track current financial performance and forecast future periods.
- Develop new reporting and processes for Free Cash Flow and Cost to Serve across each of the Grocery businesses.
- Drive strategic initiatives across WW Grocery businesses - Whole Foods Market, Fresh, and Go.
- Support WW Amazon Stores Finance (IPAT) and Corporate FP&A to communicate WW Grocery Stores plans to Amazon's top leadership.
- Work cross functionally with finance teams and senior leadership on ad-hoc analyses and deep dives.
- Communicate financial and business results and plans, including variance analyses to senior leaders.
- Create an environment that facilitates the development of challenging goals, business plans and financial plans and then help the business achieve these results.
- Simplifying and automating planning tools and process across WW Grocery Stores.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Masters degree and 3+ years of finance experience
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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)
- 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
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,900/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.