Want to join an exciting start-up within Amazon featuring screaming monkeys and exciting shenanigans that create a unique deal buying experience for customers? Woot! is the original daily deals website and continues its longstanding tradition of entertaining customers while also providing them new and fun ways of hunting for amazing deals. As a Finance Manager at Woot!, an Amazon subsidiary, you will play a critical role in providing data-driven insights that guide business decisions across all organizational levels. You'll lead strategic initiatives, standardize planning processes, and establish the right controls to enable sound financial decisions, working closely with the Woot leadership team. This position offers exceptional visibility with leadership and provides meaningful influence in the decision-making process. You'll translate complex financial data into actionable business insights while partnering with stakeholders to identify growth opportunities and optimize resource allocation. Your analytical expertise will directly impact operational excellence and drive continuous improvement across our financial processes.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to provide strategic financial guidance, build analytical frameworks for new initiatives, and assess return on investment for various business opportunities.
- Dive deep to build complex analyses, models, and narratives with broad scope that deliver measurable results for the organization.
- Lead core financial processes including month-end close, annual operating plans, and long-range strategic planning while ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal and external policies.
- Identify and implement large-scale financial solutions to proactively improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes across teams.
- Communicate finance topics to Woot and Amazon stakeholders with the right level of detail both verbally and in writing, enabling informed decision-making while effectively challenging assumptions when necessary.
- Establish strong partnerships with Amazon Accounting and Finance teams
A day in the life
Your day begins with reviewing key financial metrics and preparing for a meeting with business stakeholders to discuss operational performance and planning needs. Throughout the day, you'll work on deep-dive analyses to address specific business questions, collaborate with
cross-functional teams to align on financial reporting standards, and develop improved control mechanisms. You'll participate in strategic planning sessions where your financial insights help shape business decisions, and spend time mentoring team members on financial processes and best practices.
About the team
The Woot Finance team is a
lean,
agile group that drives significant business impact across the organization. Despite our
lean structure, we deliver outsized results by combining deep financial expertise with operational agility. We partner closely with business leaders to provide strategic insights, enable data-driven decision-making, and support Woot's growth initiatives. Our team's ability to move quickly and adapt to changing business needs allows us to tackle complex challenges and deliver solutions that matter. We pride ourselves on being both strategic advisors and hands-on problem solvers who help Woot achieve its financial and operational goals.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 5+ years of leading
cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 5+ 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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Master's degree (MBA or related discipline)
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan 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)
- Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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