Finance Manager, Japan Digital and Print Books
Amazon (AI roles) · Tokyo, JPN
No salary listed. Estimated from 483 salary-disclosed Operations roles on this board: $150K–$218K (interquartile range; estimate, not the employer's figure).
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The Books Finance team seeks a skilled Finance Manager to join our team in Tokyo. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the oldest, while simultaneously one of the most innovative and transformative businesses at Amazon, in a high-visibility role. The candidate is expected to partner closely with business leadership to provide recommendations on business strategy and areas of investment, support in new product launches, develop metrics and reporting, and lead financial planning and forecasting as well as variance analysis. The successful candidate will be able to think strategically and analytically, as well as be able to influence the decisions of business leadership using data/analysis.
This is a unique finance role within Amazon that will give you the opportunity to work across both retail print and digital businesses. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, detail oriented, and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams. You will be nimble enough to conduct financial analyses and dive deep to answer complex questions, while also be able to provide opinions on larger trends during business discussions.
At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.
Key job responsibilities
• Provide strategic guidance, tactical direction, and decision support to business partners
• Lead key analytical projects that influence senior leadership decision making
• Develop and refine financial models used to forecast existing and new products
• Compile and review financial results and operational plans and communicate results to leadership
• Invent, simplify, and automate management reporting
About the team
We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
- 6+ years of finance experience
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis
- Ability to display complex quantitative data in a simple, intuitive format and to present findings in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to work independently and self-motivate to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload across multiple projects, and achieve effective results in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
This is a unique finance role within Amazon that will give you the opportunity to work across both retail print and digital businesses. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, detail oriented, and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams. You will be nimble enough to conduct financial analyses and dive deep to answer complex questions, while also be able to provide opinions on larger trends during business discussions.
At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.
Key job responsibilities
• Provide strategic guidance, tactical direction, and decision support to business partners
• Lead key analytical projects that influence senior leadership decision making
• Develop and refine financial models used to forecast existing and new products
• Compile and review financial results and operational plans and communicate results to leadership
• Invent, simplify, and automate management reporting
About the team
We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
- 6+ years of finance experience
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis
- Ability to display complex quantitative data in a simple, intuitive format and to present findings in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to work independently and self-motivate to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload across multiple projects, and achieve effective results in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
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