Passionate about ensuring financial statement accuracy? Ready to take on the responsibility for one or two networks as a Controller? Want to be part of a fun team that runs Internal Controls and drives process improvements? If you answered yes, we should talk!
We are a small but mighty team in Amazon Operations overseeing Compliance/Risk for six networks. What does Operations mean, you ask?
Ever wonder how your Amazon packages get to your doorstep? Now you can learn by being part of the Finance team supporting these operations. Two of our networks are AMZL and NASC.
AMZL is Amazon's "Last Mile" delivery service, responsible for delivering packages to households and businesses across the planet. Part of "Middle Mile", NASC is a segment of the Amazon owned and operated shipping network that includes hundreds of warehouses and thousands of vans, long-haul trucks and aircraft. Every day several million packages from multiple fulfillment centers across the US and Canada arrive in one of the ~100 sort centers where they are sorted for delivery, which improves truck utilization and reduces transportation costs.
This role will support our Global Controls, Compliance, and Risk Management team. You will be pivotal to the team's success, as you partner to build and create global Controls frameworks. This role will partner with multiple stakeholders within both, finance and the business teams, to provide Controls guidance and Compliance insights to Worldwide operations. Opportunities await to grow your career as you engage on one of the many facets of this world-class delivery service. Once you have mastered the world of Compliance, endless opportunities exist to rotate to other functional areas or roles across Amazon's portfolio of businesses.
Key job responsibilities
- Effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful recommendations, and manages competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. The candidate should demonstrate amazing analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguity, and strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with worldwide operations leadership is common.
- Perform monthly and quarterly reviews of the fixed asset ledger to check for completeness of data, correct entries, etc. and perform corrective actions whenever necessary.
- Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.
- Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
- Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
- Design and build processes that improve the level of automation and scalability of the aforementioned activities that can be replicated.
A day in the life
A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by helping to build scalable, robust, dependable and systemic solutions through data-driven decision making.
Partnerships:
- Global Consumer Controllership team
- AMZL Engineering and Launch teams
- Capex Controllership team
- Accounting, Procurements, and IT
About the team
This role will support Controls lead Capex Controllership for one of our operations networks, supporting global Launch and Engineering teams. This role will help to A) influence and shape global control mechanisms and B) partner with execution teams on Controls insights.
