Amazon has an immediate opening for a Finance Manager to join our Finance and Business Integration team.
This candidate will work closely with accounting operations, business, finance, and technology teams to implement SAP for a manufacturing business unit. They will support and directly influence the launches of some of Amazon’s newest global business initiatives. In this role, the candidate will represent accounting while collaborating with business, finance, and technical to deliver world class financial solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Collaborate: You will collaborate with internal accounting and finance teams to assess current processes and define system requirements.
Consult: You’ll operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different stakeholder teams across Amazon. You will act as a liaison between the Accounting team and IT/SAP consultants to ensure smooth communication and alignment of requirements.
Own and Manage: You’ll support the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of SAP modules, assist in data migration and validation from legacy systems to SAP, and participate in the development of training materials and deliver end-user training for accounting staff.
Controllership: You will ensure compliance with internal controls, audit requirements, and financial reporting standards throughout project lifecycle.
Automate: You’ll work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate.
Support Expansion: You’ll support the expansion of Amazon Robotics by ensuring implementation of controlled processes to ensure accuracy in Amazon’s financial statements
Make Decisions: You’ll be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion.
Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of finance or related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
- Large scale ERP (SAP Preferred) implementation experience or super user
- Manufacturing industry experience in Accounting or related field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- CPA
- Experience in accounting at Big Four or Fortune 500
- Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions
- Experience managing large scale financial automation projects
Key job responsibilities
As a Finance Manager, you will:
Define Strategies: You'll partner with accounting and technology teams to develop and own the implementation strategies for large, multi-year accounting automation programs.
Own and Manage: You’ll own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously.
Automate: You’ll work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate.
Support Expansion: You’ll support the expansion of Amazon business by ensuring implementation of controlled processes to keep Amazon’s financial statements materially correct.
Consult: You’ll operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different stakeholder teams across Amazon.
Make Decisions: You’ll be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion.
Collaborate: You’ll collaborate with Amazonians of diverse backgrounds.
Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.
About the team
We are the Finance and Business Integration (FBI) team within Amazon Accounting. As an FBI team, we lead Accounting programs that support the accounting workstreams related to foundational solutions for Amazon's Digital, and Devices & Services businesses. Our scope includes products and services for Digital and Devices & Services businesses, financial automation tools, launch acceleration, and compliance.
