Amazon's Global Finance Solutions (GFS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment where delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. GFS is seeking a Finance Manager to support our internal Finance business partners. You'll manage a high-performing team while partnering with business leaders to provide financial insights, develop strategic recommendations, and improve operational efficiency.

The candidate would be responsible to perform financial reporting, support monthly P&L analysis and financial forecasts, review fiscal close in close co-ordination with business and accounting teams, evaluate Capex/Opex requirements and continuously benchmark cost productivity for the business. Additionally, the role would also facilitate financial review meetings and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management, provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner and facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time.

Additional responsibilities would include partnering across vertical teams to ensure high-quality reporting, ad-hoc business analyses, financial modeling and analysis of business trends, establishing controls and defining/maintaining business metrics for new/existing businesses. The candidate would also partner with Global leadership team to develop strategic multi-year or long term operating plans, present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives, drive hiring, manage performance and place accountability.

Key job responsibilities
Manage and develop a team of financial analysts, including performance management, career development, and mentoring.
Lead hiring efforts for your team, including interviewing and selection decisions.
Own financial planning and analysis for assigned GFS business units.
Lead monthly close, MBR/QBR preparations, and variance analysis.
Drive annual OP process and quarterly forecasts.
Develop automated solutions for financial reporting and analysis.
Create and present executive-ready deliverables.
Partner with business teams on strategic initiatives.
Lead process improvement initiatives.
Support investment decisions and business cases.
Drive strategic projects and ad-hoc analysis.
Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within your team.

About the team
Global Finance and Solutions (GFS) services for teams across the world. Our primary customers are Finance Operations, Central Accounting, and other Amazon Finance teams. We focus on controllership and financial stewardship, and have three primary missions:

Provide world-class finance leadership and support to our customers at the highest level of controllership.
Lower our company’s cost structure by transitioning accounting and finance work from high to low cost geographies.
Drive additional scale and productivity by optimizing and automating processes.