The Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) team owns Amazon’s global inventory planning systems: SCOT decides what, when, who, where, and how much inventory to buy in order to meet customer needs as well as Amazon’s business goals. We do this for millions of items, for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory world-wide. Our systems are built entirely in-house with a high focus on automated large-scale supply chain planning and optimization systems.

The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) Finance team is seeking a Principal Finance Manager (FM) to support the USA Automated Inventory Management team, partnering closely with Director AIM. This role will support the business organization responsible for automating the inventory management function, taking over responsibility for planning and insights on inventory outputs, reporting and analytics for leadership and driving key performance indicators used across Amazon to manage inventory and delight customers. This is an opportunity to establish and improve the metrics, mechanisms, driving automation, controllership and operating parameters that effectively monitor, report and manage Amazon’s worldwide inventory position including representing executive reviews. This role will involve interacting with senior leaders across the company and act as a trusted partner in defining and building the next big advancement in automated inventory management capabilities at Amazon and support leadership decision making. This role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to senior leadership.

The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They collaborate with executives and various business units across Amazon. You bring excellent verbal and written communication skills. This is a perfect position for someone who knows how to lead others, work fast, and smart. They know which details make all the difference, and which ones don’t add value and know the difference between spending time wisely and wasting time.


Key job responsibilities
- Identifying and structuring financial support for the WW Retail Inventory Management function.
- Controllership over the tools and systems created by the inventory team
- Ownership and develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles that are reviewed by Amazon executive leadership
- Manage and develop the financial planning and analysis processes, including long range planning, and operational planning processes
- Drive modeling on financial trade-offs and implications of key inventory management projects and drive teams for driving inventory efficiency
- Create framework for applying appropriate financial controls at scale to inventory management systems
- Drive continuous improvement, automation and standardization of financial reporting processes
- Influence others, insist on the highest standards, have bias for action and challenge the status quo
- Partner with AIM team to drive the prioritization of the roadmaps to drive efficiency and Assess impact of new business ideas and initiatives