2025 Finance Placement Year

The Amazon University Talent Acquisition Team are looking for finance Interns to work alongside, and support managers gaining a deep insight into the financial systems, processes, and controls used to record Amazon's growing volume of daily, weekly, and monthly transactions. You will learn how finance supports the various business teams in forecasting and analyzing actual financial results, managing the external reporting of Amazon's quarterly financial statements and inputting to the launch of new customer-focused initiatives to ensure customers can find and discover anything and everything they want online. As part of our commitment to your development, during your 12-month placement you will complete two six month rotations and gain exposure to areas within our finance department, these may include accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, taxation, and commercial finance. These teams are responsible for the following: Accounting:

• Monthly internal financial results close process
• Quarterly consolidated financial reports released to public
• Annual certification of effectiveness of financial reporting controls and statutory financial statements
Finance Operations (accounts receivable & payable):
• External relationship management with vendors and customers
• Internal relationship management with vendor managers and other finance teams
• Financial and commercial risk management including bad debt risk and vendor shipment holds
• Partner with shared service centers in India and Slovakia
Commercial Finance:
• Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts
• Modeling expected impact of new initiatives and businesses
• Analyzing variations against expected results
• Supporting finance and business teams with insights on key input and output performance indicators.
Tax / VAT:
• Analysis of tax legislation and application to Amazon's facts and filing requirements
• Preparation and submission of VAT filings
• Ad hoc tax questions from the businesses and support of business launches and projects.
Internship dates are 23rd June 2025 to 26th June 2026. EMEA AUTA Team Key job responsibilities
• Collecting, analyzing, and reviewing quantitative data and creating meaningful reports to drive business improvement and cost reductions
• Root cause analysis and uncovering core issues using data
• Assist with development, and implementation of policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability
• Assist in the development of all weekly and monthly financial close, all planning, forecasting, and reporting models and their continuous innovation and improving the use and ease of interpretation by your business partners
• Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate, automated, and timely
About the team Competitive pay
• Impactful project and internship/role deliverables
• Networking opportunities with fellow interns
• Internships events such as speaker series, intern panels, Leadership Principles sessions, Amazon writing skills sessions.
  
  Are enrolled in or have completed a Bachelor's degree, Speak, write, and read fluently in English
  
  At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is continually evolving and is a place where motivated employees thrive, and employee ownership and accountability lead to meaningful results.
Are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? At Amazon, we move with purpose and speed, and this requires us to work with a dynamic network of retail, HR, marketing, tech and operations partners. We help others understand finance and are trusted business advisors. We employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have the most up to date and reliable information to help them make the best possible decision., Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.