What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Manager, US Nonsort, Labor Plan Audit position at Amazon?
Description
Amazon's US Non-Sort (USNS) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to lead the Labor Plan Audit pillar. This role will drive impact across the USNS associate workforce. You'll build centralized audit mechanisms that reduce planning defects and optimize total cost to serve, partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Production Planning, PXT, and Finance leadership to standardize labor planning inspections. Because your work directly shapes hiring plans, workforce optimization, and scheduling decisions for hundreds of thousands of associates, you'll be incredibly close to the customer—ensuring our people strategies translate into better experiences for the teams powering our fulfillment network.
Success In Role
You are passionate about operational finance and process improvement, with a strong bias for action and proven track record of implementing standardized solutions that drive accountability. You can effectively manage competing priorities while building strong partnerships across Finance, Operations, Production Planning, and cross-functional teams. You work backwards from cost inefficiencies and planning gaps while approaching problems with a first-principles mindset. You understand both the technical aspects of labor planning systems and the business implications of planning decisions, translating complex workforce optimization concepts into actionable strategies. You think big while ensuring careful attention to detail in audit execution. You are a continuous learner who thrives in ambiguity.
Key job responsibilities
Audit & Inspection Excellence
You'll help steer the strategic direction for labor plan quality across the network while simultaneously staying hyper-focused on delivering measurable cost savings. This entails collaborating with finance and operations teams within weekly rhythms as well as longer-term strategic goals to identify planning deficiencies, overseeing the development of automated inspection dashboards, and ensuring R&O-ready plans.
About The Team
This role will partner closely with Regional Finance and Central Verticals within USNS Finance as well as the Production Planning Team, acting as Finance's quality control mechanism for labor planning. The role is critical in positioning USNS Finance at the forefront of planning excellence, creating enduring accountability mechanisms, and fostering a culture of proactive auditing and controllership.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TN, Nashville - 85,900.00 - 146,900.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Irving - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A10585036
Amazon's US Non-Sort (USNS) Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to lead the Labor Plan Audit pillar. This role will drive impact across the USNS associate workforce. You'll build centralized audit mechanisms that reduce planning defects and optimize total cost to serve, partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Production Planning, PXT, and Finance leadership to standardize labor planning inspections. Because your work directly shapes hiring plans, workforce optimization, and scheduling decisions for hundreds of thousands of associates, you'll be incredibly close to the customer—ensuring our people strategies translate into better experiences for the teams powering our fulfillment network.
Success In Role
You are passionate about operational finance and process improvement, with a strong bias for action and proven track record of implementing standardized solutions that drive accountability. You can effectively manage competing priorities while building strong partnerships across Finance, Operations, Production Planning, and cross-functional teams. You work backwards from cost inefficiencies and planning gaps while approaching problems with a first-principles mindset. You understand both the technical aspects of labor planning systems and the business implications of planning decisions, translating complex workforce optimization concepts into actionable strategies. You think big while ensuring careful attention to detail in audit execution. You are a continuous learner who thrives in ambiguity.
Key job responsibilities
Audit & Inspection Excellence
- Develop and implement standardized inspection processes for ALPS constraints, labor plan assumptions, and solve quality across all sites
- Create automated reporting mechanisms that flag planner oversights and planning defects impacting total cost to serve
- Monitor volume forecasting accuracy (WAPE) and partner with Network Audits to improve forecasting
- Audit labor plan solves for common issues including unnecessary new hire locks, suboptimal backlog solving, and ineffective VET/VTO utilization
- Build and maintain Accountability Scorecards that highlight process gaps and strengthen Operations trust in centralized plans
- Develop forecast-to-actual reports that identify cost-saving opportunities and explain execution deviations from plans
- Create standard work documentation and review templates for consistent labor plan inspections Ensure >90% attribution accuracy for ALPS inputs and workforce planning decisions
- Partner effectively with Production Planning Team (PPT), Site Finance, Operations, PXT, and Supply Chain to align labor plan guidance
- Build strong relationships that position Finance as the "loudest auditors in the room" while reducing Site Finance's 10 hour weekly burden
- Clearly articulate workforce optimization trade-offs (Blue Badge vs. Seasonal, OT vs. hiring breakeven analysis) to various audience levels
You'll help steer the strategic direction for labor plan quality across the network while simultaneously staying hyper-focused on delivering measurable cost savings. This entails collaborating with finance and operations teams within weekly rhythms as well as longer-term strategic goals to identify planning deficiencies, overseeing the development of automated inspection dashboards, and ensuring R&O-ready plans.
About The Team
This role will partner closely with Regional Finance and Central Verticals within USNS Finance as well as the Production Planning Team, acting as Finance's quality control mechanism for labor planning. The role is critical in positioning USNS Finance at the forefront of planning excellence, creating enduring accountability mechanisms, and fostering a culture of proactive auditing and controllership.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
- 6 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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)
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TN, Nashville - 85,900.00 - 146,900.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Irving - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A10585036