【MBA Class of 2027／Full Time】MBA Finance Manager, Amazon Japan

Are you excited about using data and financial insight to shape business strategy at one of the world's most innovative companies? Do you want to be at the center of decision-making — partnering directly with business leaders to drive growth?
Amazon Business Finance is seeking an analytical, results-oriented Sr. Financial Analyst to join our team in Japan. "Finance" at Amazon is similar to 経営企画室・経営戦略本部 (Corporate Strategy & Planning) at Japanese companies — you own a wide range of planning, analysis, and strategic advisory responsibilities that directly influence how the business operates and grows.
In this role, you will serve as a strategic finance partner to Amazon Business Leaders, supporting the healthy growth and financial performance of the business. You will deliver impact through detailed financial modeling, driving business initiatives, and defining key performance indicators that enable leaders to make better, faster decisions.
Key job responsibilities
While exact weight depends on each assignment, general responsibilities of Amazon Business Finance in Amazon includes the followings:
- Lead both multi-year's business planning and annual forecasts with detailed financial for business segments and initiatives. Identify opportunity for sales and profit from multiple dimensions, and translate them to action plans with priority calls. Audit business teams’ assumptions and plans. Translate opportunities to business goals, with key inputs which matters to the outputs, identify road-blocks, ensure proper and sufficient action plans are developed, and track the delivery.
- Lead forecast updates to keep managements up to date. Conduct timely reviews with explanation to forecast changes and variance vs. actual, communicate business issues and demand actions to management and business partners.
- There are variety of analysis on demand; pricing, product sourcing strategy, new category or store launches, new business models, co-promotion opportunities and other merchandising strategy.
- For new business and business models, simulate benefit and costs to Amazon, the business partners and our consumers. Support business teams for organization and financial process designs to deliver the idea, obtain the budget and make it happen.
- Partner with other finance teams and multi function and develop all weekly and monthly financial close activities, all planning forecasting, and reporting models while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to both operations and other business partners.
- Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate, automated and timely.
- Track and manage budgets and headcounts. Reviews and approve cost/fee structure change proposals and investments.
- Coach and grow subordinates and/or newer members to the team.
Important Notes
- Please make sure to list your MBA/master’s program and expected graduation date (month and year) within the Education section of your online application and on your resume.
- A cover letter is not necessary.
- Interviews: Online assessments will be sent in September and interviews will start in October.

Basic Qualifications

- Currently enrolled or recent graduate (less than 24-months) of an MBA program at the time of application
- Able to join full time position in 2027
- 3+ years’ finance experience in an organization with world class processes, or 3+ years’ experience in consulting or financial institution which occurred between the graduation date from your undergraduate program and prior to starting your MBA program.
- Demonstrated financial acumen and analytical experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and project analysis (example: business modeling), and data interpretation of business impact and results (example: what-if scenarios).
- Business level fluency in English (in both written and verbal format)

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree required in finance, economics, mathematics, business or related field
- 5+ years in finance roles with progressively increasing levels of responsibility
- Experience in setting up business cases and driving financial conclusions, strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Superior attention to detail and have the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously, though never losing the big picture out of sight
- Business level fluency in Japanese (in both written and verbal format)
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