Overview
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 Riyadh (KSA) Office.
Key job responsibilities
– Partner with Operation Business Leaders of KSA 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, identify opportunities to build new processes that 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 members to support business growth at fast pace.
– Drive network level cross functional projects
Basic Qualifications
– 1+ years of finance experience
– 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
– 1+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
– Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
– Experience using data to influence business decisions
– Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis
Preferred Qualifications
– 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
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About Afaq - Warehouse Branch (Amazon)
"Make History
Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Since Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com, we have significantly expanded our product offerings, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfilment and customer service centres. Today, Amazon.com offers everything from books and electronics to tennis rackets and diamond jewellery.
If you thrive in a challenging and fast-paced environment, you’ll meet your match with us, as you will be part of a vibe of constant improvement, where the things you do at one moment, you will not necessarily be doing 6 months later. We don’t like to sit still, which is why we always treat every day like the first day. A day to make more good things happen for our customers. It’s that kind of spirit that drives our success now and keeps us ahead of the competition in the future. And you could be part of it. It’s as simple as this: Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History."
