Accounting Manager, FOAA

Description

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online.

By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA.

The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

Finance Operations Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) performs accounting and financial planning & analysis services, and our primary customers are Finance Operations, Central Accounting and other Amazon Finance teams.

Our vision is to create a world-class Accounting and Finance organization that raises the controllership bar, fosters continuous improvement, builds scalable processes and intelligent tools to support financial reporting and the strategic decision-making of our partners, and lowers the companys cost structure.

We focus on controllership and financial stewardship.

FOAA seeks an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to support our accounting team based in Arlington, VA. This role will oversee transition of accounting activities and expansions from FOAA customers, perform month end close activities and reconciliations, support operational excellence initiatives, and improve controllership, while ensuring quality assurance;

all with strategic significance and high exposure. The ideal candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.

The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of an extremely dynamic and high -paced environment, support a global organization and work with accounting and business teams.

The role offers significant opportunities for rapid growth and is a great place to learn about various businesses at Amazon.

The ideal candidate demonstrates ownership and sound judgment in decisions that have financial, business, operational, or customer implications, which leads the team to take smart risks and innovate.

The ideal candidate comes with financial statement audit and corporate accounting experience, and who excels at problem solving, pays attention to details, and drives positive change by evaluating and streamlining existing operational and accounting processes, controls and metrics.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Arlington, VA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of building financial and operational reports / data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ years of financial statement audit or corporate accounting experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 4+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating / implementing an escalation plan experience
• 4+ years of mentoring junior finance and / or business team members experience
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess,
• 4+ years of financial statement audit or corporate accounting experience preferably gained within a Big Four firm and / or a multinational organization
• Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making
• Certified accountant qualification (CPA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Project Management experience
• Hands-on experience using Oracle ERP with Blackline system

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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