Senior Financial Accounting Analyst, Finops

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 Senior Financial Analyst 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, program management experience, 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:

Working closely with the projects and business teams, provide comprehensive accounting requirements and ensure engagement for a successful project launch
Working closely with the accounting and finance teams to evaluate monthly results
Highlighting accounting improvement opportunities on specific processes and accounts and partnering with operations and accounting teams to implement
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
Influencing business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and presentation of alternatives
Effectively maintaining communication with internal and external business partners

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities Include:

Working closely with the projects and business teams, provide comprehensive accounting requirements and ensure engagement for a successful project launch
Working closely with the accounting and finance teams to evaluate monthly results
Highlighting accounting improvement opportunities on specific processes and accounts and partnering with operations and accounting teams to implement
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
Influencing business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and presentation of alternatives
Effectively maintaining communication with internal and external business partners

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

3+ years of controls/audit/compliance/SOX roles experience
Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
CPA