Finance Manager, WW Ops IPAT

Finance Manager

World Wide Headcount Management centrally supports headcount related activities for on-site and support roles within our operations across multiple lanes of business. Our finance team closely partners to support this rapidly expanding business while supporting key leaders and finance stakeholders. You will make history as you help build one of the largest carriers on the planet. WW seeks a Finance Manager to support Central Headcount Management. This role offers opportunities to grow your career as you engage on one of the many facets of this world-class operations business. From here, you will have the opportunity to interact with executive leadership and grow your skills.

This role partners closely with a broad range of finance and operations leaders to drive cost improvement and support headcount planning strategy. The role works with stakeholders and business partners in other regions and countries, often engaging with teams such as Reporting, Headcount Management, Standardization, Automation, and FP&A. This role designs, develops, and maintains performance measurements and reports on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.

The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities : Ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment, and collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon through excellent verbal and written communication skills. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions.

Key job responsibilities include :

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps.
• Delivers weekly / monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
• Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community : seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.
• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.