Job Description
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
Amazon Middle East is expanding and needs Finance leader who can setup robust processes and analytics in driving controllership and cost reduction initiatives. This role will be based out of Cairo (Egypt) Office.
Primary Job Duties:
- Partner with Operation Business Leaders of Egypt to provide advice, finance support, and drive process improvement throughout organization. You must have the ability to structure problems, perform analysis, and present to senior executives.
- Controllership is key to success therefore should demonstrate strong controllership. Ensure that key financial controls are in place and has ability to drive controllership across organization, develop mechanism to identify opportunity to keep building new processes to create strong control environment. Controllership of monthly financial reporting and understand/communicate financial impacts from business processes to cross functional stakeholders.
- Guide the core financial processes for the businesses, including Annual Operating Plans, Long Term Plans, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, weekly metrics, bridges and forecast updates.
- Identify operating improvements, deep dive on cost structures, and analyze business opportunities/investments, including key business development opportunities.
- Lead and participate as a key finance stakeholder in cross functional teams.
- Should be able to hire and develop team members to support business growth at fast pace.
- Has ability to coach, connect and develop strong finance team.
- Drive network level cross functional projects
- 2+ years of finance experience
- 2+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
