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 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, as well as ensuring financial statement accuracy through regular financial statement reviews with stakeholders and customers.
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.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities for this role include:
- Working closely with the accounting and finance teams to evaluate monthly results
- Facilitate financial review meetings with executive leadership, including design and review of internal financial reports
- 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 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
