FinOps Business Partner Manager

Amazon Finance Operations was created to support rapid growth across all business units. The goal of the team is to deliver seamless procure-to-pay and order-to-cash process that enable Amazon's ongoing expansion within EMEA and across the globe. We are seeking an experienced candidate to work closely with both Finance Operations and business teams to identify, analyse, create, develop, and innovate solutions , that lead to improvements in our end to end processes for our vendors and customers. The Finance Operations Business Partnering team is embedded with the business, working closely with Vendor Management, Operations, Technology and Finance teams, as well as external vendors and customers across our multiple business units. This fast developing department now needs a Senior Manager to become a major contributor to the fast paced world of Global Accounts Payable. The incumbent will partner closely with the business teams to step change our processes in a way that significantly improves the experience of vendors who do business with Amazon, while driving internal efficiencies. This is an exciting role, at the heart of Amazon's European finance group. It involves working with multiple business units, business partnering, building additional functionalities, streamlining processes and driving Self Service tools and adoption. Our operations environment presents great challenges in dealing with front line management, driving scalable and continuous improvement including controllership. We're not an average retailer and this is definitely not your average Finance position. We'll give you the opportunity to really make a difference in a high growth environment where your ability to identify and drive change will be key. You will define and establish best practice and coordinate policies with the Finance Operations leadership team based out of worldwide Amazon locations. Responsibilities will include: - You will lead the business & vendor engagement stream for a major global change programme. - This will include representing the voice of both internal and external customers of our Retail AP processes, ensuring those customers are at the heart of technology and process change. - You will lead and drive Senior Management meetings with Business Partners on key Finance Operations issues and drive business decisions. - You will ensure that Finance Operations activities are aligned with the overall strategy and objectives of the Global Finance Operations organisation. - You will ensure that the respective activities of the regions are operated in a highly controlled manner (with respect to existing Compliance & Policies procedures). - You will build better, scalable models and overcome language support challenges in a cost effective way through the implementation of better tools, technologies and best practice. - Drive expansion of Self Service functionality and improvement in vendor experience through more timely and effective communications - Applying knowledge of multiple reporting systems to deliver solutions. This requires advanced computer literacy (MS Office, especially Excel) and the aptitude to understand system dependencies. - Supporting internal customer groups in Finance, Technology, Operations, Vendor Management and Project Management About you The ideal candidate will be an intelligent, talented person experienced in an industry finance role with an understanding of Finance Operations (AP & AR), periodic financial reporting and related analytical analysis with knowledge of various operational finance procedures and policies ideally from a Retail environment. You will have demonstrated the ability to successfully lead complex, milestone driven projects. Additional traits we are looking for are a strong desire to exceed expectations, effective interpersonal skills; including persuasive written and oral communication, solid organisational skills, ability to assess and manage risk and some experience with information technology.