Finance Business Partner

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
• Experience in 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 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

What the job involves

• As Finance Partner for EU Amazon Shipping, you'll partner with Operations teams and cross-functional finance groups to drive sustainable, profitable growth. You'll work with senior leaders across 5 EU country P&Ls, collaborating with Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance functions to deliver insightful analysis and timely guidance
• Build Scalable Financial Mechanisms: Design and implement automated financial frameworks that scale across multiple countries and new business lines, reducing manual effort while increasing accuracy and speed of decision-making
• Drive Automation & Embrace AI: Lead the transformation of traditional finance processes through automation and AI-powered tools, enabling the business to scale efficiently from thousands to millions of packages
• Lead Change Management: Champion new ways of working across finance and operations teams, establishing standardized processes that can be replicated across the expanding SWA network
• Strategic Partnership: Work with transportation and finance teams to identify best practices, lead programatic initiatives, and develop mechanisms that support rapid business growth
• Financial Innovation: Create flexible frameworks that adapt to network variability, new programs and enable dynamic modeling, turning complex multi-week analyses into real-time insights
• Join EU Amazon Shipping (SWA) to build the next $Bn initiative. Shape the future of shipping as part of a new, emerging business solving the biggest customer pain points in the logistics industry globally
• Amazon Shipping leverages Amazon's delivery network to build and scale a shipping service for any package type, destination, and service speed at competitive prices with service that consistently exceeds expectations