.DESCRIPTIONThe right financial and business decisions have made Amazon what it is today. As a Finance Manager, you'll help us optimize our finances so that we can enhance our customer experience even more and navigate the fast-changing business environment. This role is an opportunity to act as the key finance leader for a strategic program and get really involved with shaping our business. You'll lead others and use insights to show senior stakeholders ways that we can move forward with our business ambitions. Position can be hired on any of the Finance Hubs: MAD15, MUC2, LHR16, LUX12, LIN1, CDG10 and PRG14.Key job responsibilitiesBuild financial models to drive business decisions and make judgement calls on challenges using your understanding of Amazon's cost structure.Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issues.Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency, and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions.Own the financial and operational plan and financial reporting, create scalable processes and monitor teams for accuracy.Onboard, develop and mentor team members in areas of financial reporting for accuracy, create best practice materials and promote knowledge sharing.Standardize, consolidate, automate and enhance daily and weekly reporting across EU, cooperating with CF Finance and Ops, ACES, PE and Central Flows BP's as primary customers.Identify, create and consolidate best practice reporting so BPs are using accurate data to make correct decisions.Proactively identify and scope out potential initiatives to support BP's.Provide support to BP's for adhoc requests with work received and prioritized via a SIM ticket queue.Identify analysis/reports that would benefit other sites - all EU, country or FC type - and scale accordingly.Identify repetitive requests for analysis and builds tools and reports to meet the demand to maximize automation of routine tasks.Create and maintain an automation roadmap for the Central Finance Organization.Build strong relationships with counterparties that are not its main customer in order to ensure that team work is not overlapping with other teams' responsibilities.Has ownership of data sets incoming into its own server and deprecation of data sources/servers.Perform data sets checks for any data entering own cluster/server which further sources data for Central Finance owned tools and EU wide downstream teams dependent on data.A day in the lifeOur Finance Managers at this level take a hands-on role to boost our business performance and efficiency. You'll collaborate with partners in different areas of our business to provide insights on improvements in our operational performance. That will involve deep diving into data, managing our planning processes, and giving team members guidance on more ambiguous areas of our cost structures