Description

Entering the business to business (B2B) market is one of Amazon’s most exciting growth opportunities and since launching in 2015, Amazon Business (AB) already has more than 5 million customers. AB is growing fast and require talented finance professionals to help us scale. AB is recognized as one of the key focus areas for Amazon “Keep Amazon Business on its high-growth/high-profit path”.

This role acts as a Finance partner for one or more Sales sectors for Amazon Business in Japan, supporting the growth and financial aspects including controller-ship. This role will lead the finance activities, create the reporting mechanism that are scalable and analysis, including creating new framework required to grow B2B spend. The role will drive growth through detailed financial modeling, leading business initiatives, and identifying/improving key business indicators such sales productivity, profitability, sales mix to provide insightful inputs to the business leaders to drive maximum growth. Additional responsibilities include delivering cost and process improvements, performing reviews of forecast vs. actual variances, and communicating with managements and peers about the business issues and demanding actions. He/she may also have a subordinate to manage, coach and develop in due course of time.

This position is expected to interact extensively with JP AB Business and B2C stakeholders and will report to AB Finance Head in Japan, while working closely with Amazon Business teams and worldwide finance teams.

Key job responsibilities

In general, the responsibilities includes, but not limited to:

• Serve as a finance partner working directly with Amazon Business leadership, supporting one or more of the Sales segments

• Lead the financial planning and analysis processes with metrics and data insights for financial risks, opportunities, and investment decisions

• Lead the preparation of weekly, monthly, and annual business performance reviews

• Develop, report, and analyze key input metrics that support team goals

• Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Tokyo, 13, JPN

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in finance or a related analytical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Demonstrated financial acumen and analytical experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and project analysis (example: business modeling), and data interpretation of business impact and results (example: what-if scenarios).

• Experience working with stakeholders/business partnering

• Ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment, prioritize and meet tight deadlines

• Excellent advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SQL/VBA and financial modeling

• Fluent Japanese & Business English communication skills (both in written and verbal form)

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA

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