Description The 'NA Fresh Finance Manager - F3G' serves as a strategic finance partner for the category management team owning center store grocery selection. In this role, you will partner directly with the Category Director to enable financially-informed decision making around product selection, pricing, cost, and vendor negotiations. You will also spearhead ad hoc initiatives and projects aimed at driving net PPM improvement, along with overseeing planning, reporting, and month-end close activities. This position requires close collaboration with stakeholders across different teams and functions. By integrating financial data and analysis into the decision-making process, you will help optimize profitability and drive sustainable growth across our Fresh retail business. As the finance lead for this key area, you will have high visibility and exposure to senior leadership across multiple organizations. Given the rapid growth of the grocery business, this role presents significant opportunities to increase your scope of responsibility and elevate your strategic impact over time. Key job responsibilities - Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact. - Delivers weekly/monthly financial close. Uses financial systems and advanced MSExcel functions to work with large data sets. Outputs plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations. - Creates effective business partnerships, manages competing priorities, and provides guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events. - Drive accountability across category teams by first building and then leading mechanisms to review vendor level performance on a monthly and quarterly basis. - Create scalable processes and tools leading to successful annual vendor negotiations. - Communicate findings (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. - Participates in hiring, developing, and mentoring peers and team members. Seeks and leverages diverse perspectives in all activities. - Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations. - Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence. About the team The Grocery Finance organization is dedicated to shaping the long-term strategy and future of grocery, omni-channel and new physical store formats across Amazon. 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 Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience Preferred Qualifications - 7+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience - 7+ 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 - 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 Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.