Where will Amazon's growth come from in the next year? What about over the next five? Which product lines are poised to quintuple in size? Are we investing enough in our infrastructure, or too much? How do our customers react to changes in prices, product selection, or delivery times?

These are among the most important questions at Amazon today. The Topline Forecasting team in the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization is dedicated to answering these questions using statistical and machine learning methods. The Topline Forecast is one of the most important inputs for strategic and operational planning for Amazon’s consumer business. We build accurate predictive models, and deploy automated software solutions to provide forecasting insights to business leaders at the most senior levels throughout the company.

SCOT Finance is seeking a Finance Manager to support the World Wide Topline Forecasting team. The Individual will be a finance leader with experience in finance and interest in economics and data science. The leader will need to be able to partner with a team of Economists, research scientists, data scientists and engineers who build models that forecast growth rates and volumes. This person will partner with multiple stakeholders to review and validate forecast assumptions, mechanics and outputs and must be able to communicate crisply, generate timely and insightful analysis, and provide controllership through auditing. This role requires extensive partnership with various business, operations, transportation, and finance teams to identify areas of opportunities for improvements in forecasting coverage and accuracy, and understand the impact of forecast revisions.


Key job responsibilities
- Own the forecast output, underlying assumptions and explaining and rationalizing them with various leaders and stakeholder groups. Including contributing to docs and doc reviews with senior leaders on forecast revisions and variances.
- Create mechanisms to audit the forecasts at various granularities.
- Identify and develop opportunities with the business team which improve forecast accuracy and coverage.
- Communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.
- Drive resource planning and goal setting discussions with the team.
- Own the planning cycle timelines and calendars for the Topline team for external reviews and publishes.