Finance Manager Retail, Sub-Saharan Africa (ZA Stores Finance)

Cape Town, South AfricaFull-timeSeniorHybridPosted 13 Oct 2026

Job Overview

Amazon is hiring a Finance Manager for Retail Sub-Saharan Africa (ZA Stores Finance) in Cape Town to establish and maintain financial controls and processes through continuous auditing and reporting of inputs and outputs. The role suits a data- and analytics-driven finance leader comfortable with highly complex business contexts and business intelligence tools.

The Finance Manager partners with the business to identify strategic opportunities where data-backed insights drive value creation, translates analysis into executive-facing terms, and drives projects across internal and external teams. Responsibilities include owning mechanisms to inspect growth and profitability, establishing controllership for day-to-day profitability, inventing and automating management reporting with BI teams globally, and developing short- and long-term financial plans with senior stakeholders worldwide.

Posted 15 September 2026 on amazon.jobs (Job ID 10542219). Full-time; salary not advertised.

Key Responsibilities

• Build review routines with the local business, including roll-out and training on related tools

• Own and develop robust mechanisms to inspect growth and profitability with related business teams

• Establish controllership and approval mechanisms to manage day-to-day profitability

• Invent, simplify and automate management reporting with business and BI teams across Amazon

• Provide strategic guidance, tactical direction and decision support to business and finance partners

• Lead key analytical projects and contribute to reviews that influence senior leadership decisions

• Develop financial plans for short- and long-term planning exercises with senior stakeholders worldwide

• Establish tight controls over financial inputs and outputs through continuous auditing and reporting

• Partner across retail and finance stakeholders to push complex analytical projects to completion

Required Qualifications

• Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles

• Experience building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making

• Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel

• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving

• Preferred: MBA or CPA

• Preferred: knowledge of SQL/ETL; experience with large-scale data mining/reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

• Preferred: forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and data interpretation experience

Skills & Requirements

Financial ControllershipManagement ReportingFinancial ModellingFP&AAdvanced ExcelBusiness IntelligenceRetail FinanceVariance AnalysisForecasting & BudgetingSQLStakeholder PartnershipData AnalyticsExecutive CommunicationProcess Automation