Finance Manager, MENA Finance

Amazons MENA business is growing rapidly and the financial decisions made today will shape its trajectory for years to come. As a Finance Manager within the MENA Finance team you will own the financial controls planning processes and analytical frameworks that give senior leadership the visibility they need to make confident data-backed decisions on growth and profitability.

You will build and maintain robust planning and reporting processes from automating management reporting to leading short and long-term financial planning cycles while acting as a trusted business partner to cross-functional teams across the region and globally. Your analysis will directly inform how the business allocates resources identifies efficiency opportunities and responds to a complex and fast-moving market.

Key job responsibilities
- Build and maintain financial controls approval mechanisms and reporting processes to manage day-to-day business profitability.
- Develop financial plans for short and long-term planning cycles aligning inputs with senior stakeholders across the region and globally.
- Design and automate management reporting tools working with business intelligence teams to simplify and standardise processes.
- Analyse financial and operational data to identify growth and efficiency opportunities presenting findings to senior leadership to drive decisions.
- Partner cross-functionally with business teams to provide financial guidance lead analytical projects and support strategic planning.


A day in the life
On a typical day you might start by reviewing financial performance metrics to identify where the business is tracking ahead or behind plan then spend time deep-diving into the data to understand the drivers. Youll build or refine a financial model to support an upcoming planning cycle before joining a cross-functional meeting to present your findings and challenge assumptions with senior business partners. Later you might review a team members analysis giving guidance on a complex or ambiguous area before wrapping up by progressing one of several analytical projects youre running in parallel. Travel to other sites across the region is occasionally required.

About the team
The MENA Finance team sits at the centre of one of Amazons most dynamic and fast-growing regions. The team works closely with business partners across the region and globally combining rigorous financial analysis with a deep understanding of local market complexity. Youll join a team that asks hard questions of the data moves quickly and holds a high bar for the quality of its work.

- 8 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- 6 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelors degree in Finance Mathematics Economics or another relevant field or Bachelors degree and 8 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

- 6 years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6 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
- 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)
- MBA or CPA

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