Program Manager II, Transport Controllership

Analytical and communication skills, and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions. You are analytical and creative, and you don’t quit until you solve the problem. You attack complex business questions with data and curiosity, diving below the surface to identify the root cause and the “so what” rather than just superficial trends. You thrive by providing data-driven decision support and business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
• Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in accurately estimating freight cost and ensure invoice accuracy
• Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging with financial analysts and business partners to promote and encourage continued customer focus and cost reduction
• Work with technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate, automated and timely
• Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present written business recommendations
• Analyze and solve business problems at their root
• Statistical analysis models to predict bad behaviors in system and correcting it through solutions
• Data driven decision making in ambiguous situations
• Perform detailed analysis of operations and technology by identifying trends. Should be able to scope the impact and opportunities to scale
• Create and support effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role, including identifying and grooming potential successors
• Developing metrics for continuous tracking of process efficiency and helping the leadership for data based fast decision making
• Simplifying operational and financial complexities through innovative long term solutions
About the team
About the team
Amazon controllership team is an operation finance team that controls Amazon transportation cost. This is achieved through strengthening internal & external systems by working closely with multiple internal stakeholders such as Operations and Technology groups and external stakeholders such as carriers. Team also works closely with Accounts payable for payments to carriers and accounting team for financial data reporting.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Hyderabad, TS, IND
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- - 2+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- - 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- - Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- - Experience building processes, project management, and schedules