Finance Business Partner - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract, Amazon Shipping (SWA) Finance

Finance Business Partner - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract, Amazon Shipping (SWA) Finance

Job ID: Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Join EU Amazon Shipping (SWA) to build the next $Bn initiative. Shape the future of shipping as part of a new, emerging business solving the biggest customer pain points in the logistics industry globally. Amazon Shipping leverages Amazon's delivery network to build and scale a shipping service for any package type, destination, and service speed at competitive prices with service that consistently exceeds expectations.

The Role

As Finance Partner for EU Amazon Shipping, you'll partner with Operations teams and cross functional finance groups to drive sustainable, profitable growth. You'll work with senior leaders across 5 EU country P&Ls, collaborating with Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance functions to deliver insightful analysis and timely guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Build scalable financial mechanisms: design and implement automated financial frameworks that scale across multiple countries and business lines, reducing manual effort while increasing accuracy and speed of decision making.
• Drive automation & embrace AI: lead the transformation of traditional finance processes through automation and AI powered tools, enabling the business to scale efficiently from thousands to millions of packages.
• Lead change management: champion new ways of working across finance and operations teams, establishing standardized processes that can be replicated across the expanding SWA network.
• Strategic partnership: work with transportation and finance teams to identify best practices, lead cost improvement initiatives, and develop mechanisms that support rapid business growth.
• Financial innovation: create flexible frameworks that adapt to network variability, new programs and enable dynamic modeling, turning complex multi week analyses into real time insights.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science).
• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field.
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Experience identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Experience working with Excel and large scale data mining and reporting tools such as Python, SQL or Tableau.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA.
• Knowledge of Tableau.
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• 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).

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