Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.
Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA is seeking a Group Finance Manager to support our Global Finance Business Services Accounting organization. Finance Business Services is a fast-paced group within Amazon where new challenges arise every day. This position will partner with Global Operations and Accounting teams to identify areas of Controllership risk, compliance risk, and related financial accounting impact.
The ideal candidate is a highly proactive self-starter with a strong technical accounting background, problem solving skills and attention to detail who will take ownership and drive positive change including evaluating and streamlining existing operational and accounting processes, controls and metrics. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Responsibilities include:
1. Working closely with the accounting and finance teams to evaluate monthly results. Identifying unusual variances and performing deep dive to identify business drivers.
2. Highlighting accounting improvement opportunities on specific processes and accounts and partnering with operations and accounting teams to implement
3. Coordinating with operations and accounting teams in Europe, Asia and other locations and collaborating directly to ensure strong communication, reporting, and best practices are identified, implemented and followed
4. Influencing business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and presentation of alternatives
5. Working closely with the projects and business teams, provide comprehensive accounting requirements and ensure engagement for a successful project launch
6. Effectively maintaining communication with internal and external business partners
7. Manage team performance. Establish goals & align with Leadership goals and ensure manager/team goals are reviewed regularly. Demonstrate ability to hire, identify opportunities for employee development through internal rotations , measure performance and promote team members
8. Drive integration and technology solutions for your process area independently
9. Identify and plan Training interventions for the team, on building understanding and knowledge on relevant Policies, standards and frameworks
- 10+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Chartered Accountant
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- 6+ years of directly managing and leading a team
- Global process management working across multiple time zones
- Experience leading cross-org discussions and working with a matrixed team of stakeholders to achieve common goal
- Good written, presentation and verbal communication skills at the executive level
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making
- Experience in Payroll Accounting