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Finance Manager, Amazon Air Ground Finance

Amazon.com Inc
  • Bellevue, WA
    6 days ago

    Job Description

    Own the financial engine of Amazon Air"s ground network as a Finance Manager on the Ground Finance team. Ground Finance covers the airport locations where Amazon Air runs its sort centers and ramp operations for aircraft, the physical points where the network"s cost is incurred every day. This is a high-impact controllership role that pairs rigorous budget ownership and site financial management with the modeling depth and business partnership that shape how a multi-billion dollar air network spends and scales. You will be the financial owner of your ground sites, working shoulder to shoulder with the site leaders who run them to hold the cost line, sharpen the budget, and turn operational reality into decisions that reduce cost to serve.

    You will be the controller your site leaders depend on and the modeler leadership turns to when the questions get hard, diving deep into the cost drivers behind ground operations, framing the trade-offs that matter, and challenging the organization to find better, more affordable ways to run the network. If you are energized by owning a budget end to end, building trust with the leaders you support, and holding a high controllership bar while influencing well above your level, this role offers an exciting platform to make a lasting impact.

    Key job responsibilities

    Controllership & Budget Ownership: Own the budget, financial performance, and controllership of your ground sites. Manage spend against plan, investigate variances to root cause, and execute financial processes with the attention to detail and controls compliance the role demands.

    Site Leadership Partnership: Serve as the embedded finance partner to your site leaders, earning a seat at the table as they run their sort and ramp operations. Build the trust that brings finance in early, and translate the financial picture into decisions on labor, spend, and performance.

    Robust Modeling & Business Partnership: Build and maintain the financial models that answer difficult business questions and support senior management decisions. Translate operational change into budgets and forecasts that keep pace with a fast-evolving network.

    Cost Management & Continuous Improvement: Dive deep into the operational drivers behind ground cost to surface the "why" behind performance. Partner with site leadership to improve labor efficiency and reduce cost to serve, bringing a Think Big mindset to structural opportunities.

    A day in the life

    Your typical day is that of a hands-on site controller with the reach of a strategic finance partner. You will manage your budget and review the financial metrics for your sites, identify the variances and trends that matter, and develop the insights that help leadership understand the financial health of operations. You will spend real time with your site leaders, in their operations and in their planning, so that finance is a partner in the decision rather than a scorekeeper after it. You will spend time in your models, pressure-testing assumptions and framing spend trade-offs, and in the room with operations partners where your analysis shapes decisions. Throughout, you will look for the next opportunity to reduce cost to serve while holding the controllership standards Amazon Air is built on.

    About the team

    Amazon Air is a global, customer-centric transportation provider that safely delivers low cost, high quality service, accomplishing that vision through a talented, inclusive, and diverse team leveraging innovative technologies and a sustainability-aware mindset. The Ground Finance team is the controllership backbone of that network, responsible for the airport locations where Amazon Air runs its sort centers and aircraft ramp operations. We own the budgets and financial performance of those ground sites and partner closely with the site leaders who operate them to reduce cost to serve. We value analytical depth, effective communication, and the ability to influence without authority, and we are committed to developing finance controllers who can grow their scope and impact. You can "take off" and "soar" your career at Amazon Air.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBellevue, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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    Skills

    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Budget Managementunmatched
    • Budgetingunmatched
    • Business Modelunmatched
    • Channel Strategiesunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Divingunmatched
    • Embedded Systemsunmatched
    • Expense Managementunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Controlunmatched
    • Financial Managementunmatched
    • Financial Metricsunmatched
    • Financial Modelingunmatched
    • Financial Operationsunmatched
    • Financial Strategyunmatched
    • Forecastingunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Management Strategyunmatched
    • Root Cause Analysisunmatched

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