Program Manager, FinOps

At Amazon were working to be the worlds most customer-centric company. Driving innovation on behalf of customers is core to our mission. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most strategic impactful and fastest growing areas within Amazon.

This role requires one to be a self-starter with good business modeling skills keen attention to detail and good track record of collaborating with diverse stakeholders. This role has regular interaction with senior leadership and stakeholders across Amazon and requires good verbal and written communication skills. The candidate will need to be capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy and hence needs to demonstrate a high degree of comfort with ambiguity besides holding a high bar on performance. The candidate will need to have a proven track record for hiring developing and retaining the best talent.

Key job responsibilities

Design and implement mechanisms to improve Operational Excellence Culture

Training and mentoring Operations team on Lean and Six Sigma projects

Manage the documentation and status of all GB / YB / Lean projects

Provide periodic project updates including major successes / challenges to senior management

Managing and constantly improving the idea management (ideation to implementation) process

Deliver Financial Savings through projects

Conduct Data Analysis VSMs and FMEAs to identify improvement opportunities as and when needed

Able to handle Accounts Payable process study and identify the gaps.

• Bachelors degree in BI finance engineering statistics computer science mathematics finance or equivalent quantitative field or Bachelors degree and 5 years of quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering quality assurance) experience
• Bachelors degree in engineering statistics or business or a Six Sigma Black Belt and experience as a lean sensei
• Experience in manufacturing process or industrial engineering
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
• 3 years of change management experience
• Can work proactively and independently meet deadlines and deliver on projects and tasks
• Experience in building financial and operational reports / data sets that inform business decision-making or experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating / implementing an escalation plan
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel SQL Tableau Python
• 14 years of program / project management and cross-functional experience working with tech and non-tech teams including defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics.
• Articulate and able to communicate with employees at all levels across the organization from front-line associates to executives through white papers as well as verbal communication
• Courageous and willing to stand up for their ideas within appropriate guidelines.
• Proficient in obtaining organizing and analyzing data to make fact-based decisions and drive root cause analysis

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Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology,Project / Program Management,Program Management,Management Experience,Microsoft Powerpoint,Project Management,Microsoft Project,Budgeting,DoD Experience,Leadership Experience,Supervising Experience,Contracts

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1