Finance Manager, North America Surface Transportation

Job description

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Amazon's Transportation network moves billions of packages annually, and the financial decisions behind that network touch everything from how we plan capacity to how we deliver on our customer promise. We're looking for a Finance Manager who is curious about how it all works and motivated to make it work better.

What you'll do

You'll join a highly visible team embedded within Transportation operations, working shoulder to shoulder with Operations and Technology leaders to:

-Learn how our network operates at the most granular level and translate that understanding into financial insight
-Partner with business leaders to build the business cases behind network investments and cost initiatives
-Drive programs and projects from concept through execution, measuring tangible impact on both our P&L and the customer experience
-Surface inefficiencies and opportunities that others miss, collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn analysis into action
-Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate analysis and elevate the quality of recommendations you bring to the table

What makes this role different

This team takes pride in operational excellence — not just in the numbers we produce, but in how deeply we understand the operations behind them. You won't observe from the sidelines. You'll walk the network, learn the business from the ground up, and earn credibility by showing up with insights that reflect genuine operational understanding. The problems are complex, the data is massive, and the results of your work are visible in how we serve customers every day.

You'll thrive here if you

-Are genuinely curious about how things work — you'd rather tour a fulfillment center than read a slide deck about one
-Take pride in getting the details right and producing work you'd put your name on
-See your role as a thought partner to the business, not a reporting function that operates at arm's length
-Want your analysis to drive real action — programs launched, costs reduced, customer experience improved
-View AI and automation as tools to ask better questions, not just get faster answers
-Are energized by seeing your work show up in the metrics, because you helped drive the program that moved them

Key job responsibilities
- Dive Deep into processes and cost drivers to uncover efficiency opportunities.
- Collaborate with business partners to substantiate new strategies through data analysis.
- Think critically while developing cost savings calculation methodologies.
- Think Big to maximize savings opportunities.
- Draft and present white papers, taking an idea from inception to a full-fledged project.
- Design metrics and business review documents to guide the operations team through execution.
- Apply data-driven presentation skills with an ability to simplify complex problems.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or MBA and 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 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
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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)
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

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