I’m interviewing for a manager position in forecasting and planning with amazon.com. Just wanted to see if anyone works in this function? I usually don’t hear much about these roles as my title are usually more common with product/hardware companies. How’s the work, team and pay in these roles?
Financial reporting role in Amazon (at least in AWS) = try to find what systems and Excel files have the data you need to report on, try to figure out how to update said data, try to figure out why all the data is not being updated, wait for systems to be online and actually available to use, glue report together, put bridges together explaining why things don't tie out month to month, and plan to spend about 95% of your time chasing data and maybe 5% trying to do some analysis on it or 5% drinking trying to forget the mind-numbing work you are destined to be doing for the indefinite future.
It is for a manager of forecasting, planning and analytics team. I believe the role will be heavily involving data scientist who runs and manages model to do more predictive forecasting to plan specific activities. It’s not under finance, but maybe closer to supply chain... would the pay be competitive?
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Not sure which team it is but if it is financial forecasting, stay away. They have no clue of how tech works. Most of the work still happens in excel macros with little innovation.
It sounds like supply chain rather than finance.