Amazon, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce. Since Amazon started in 1995, we have significantly expanded our product offerings, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers.
Amazon has great opportunities for professionals wishing to pursue a career as a leader in finance Operations. We know that learning through experience is what transforms talented people into great leaders. Our Operations environment presents the candidates with great challenges in dealing with front line management, and driving scalable and continuous improvements across our transportation teams worldwide. Our Finance Managers work with multiple sites, they help others understand financial decisions and are *the* trusted business advisor. They employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have the most up to date and reliable information to help them make the possible decision. Come teach us a few things, and we’ll teach you a few things as we navigate the most customer-centric company on Earth.
Transportation Controllership is focused on providing program management leadership for a dynamic and rapidly growing Transportation business. You will work with stakeholders in Business, Tech, Finance, Accounting and various transportation organizations to resolve the underlying defects in transportation network, should be able to collaborate with and influence the partner teams effectively through doc writing and track the project from inception till deployment and adoption.
This is the perfect position with someone who possess project and program management experience preferably with a systems/tools component, excellent analytical skills, and have a track record of delivering projects in a complex and ambiguous environment. You will require good project management skills, strategic thinking, relationship building, problem solving, and communication skills. A track record of on-time delivery of projects coupled with good in operate independently are the key to success of this role. You will help develop effective milestones and launch schedules for this work. The ideal candidate will anticipate and resolve bottlenecks while balancing business needs and escalating where appropriate.
Job Responsibilities include:
· Review and assess the current defect reduction framework including processes and procedures.
· Recommendations and E2E management of defect reduction cycle derived from assessment stage till execution.
· Communicate with stakeholders, leaders, users, and technical teams to collect requirements, evaluate and recommend alternatives, develop processes and tools and provide updates on intermittent milestones
· Identify, assess and resolve any bottlenecks proactively, escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs and propose corrective actions to keep the projects moving forward.
· Work with stakeholders across the transportation teams to uncover dependencies and create action plans around those dependencies
· Working with Accounting, Auditing, Finance and business to solve project requirements
· Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging with business and technology to promote and encourage continued customer focus.
About the team
Transportation Controllership team is a part of FGBS org with a mission to safeguard Amazon's assets and reputation by paying carriers timely and accurately and report-out the transportation costs accurately and on-time.
- 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
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