The Worldwide Grocery Stores (“WWGS”) Accounting team supports Amazon’s physical store businesses. The is a high-visibility growth area for Amazon with focus at the senior executive level. The team is responsible for end-to-end financial statements for this business as well as supporting scalable business growth and program launches.
This role will own areas like Fixed Assets, Lease Accounting, Payroll, and OpEx results in support of store expansion, which will require heavy cross-functional partnership with stakeholders such as operational accounting teams, policy, finance, and tech to support the growth the anticipated growth of one of Amazon’s next major business offerings. This will also help the candidate support month end close, UAT for program launches, and financial statement reporting and analytics.
The candidate will need to be comfortable working closely with members of cross-functional teams to assist in the design, development, and delivery of accounting requirements that support business growth and launches. You will need to understand end-to-end risks to effectively develop the control environment. You will also need to understand and document end-to-end process flows. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, and 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
• Oversee various aspects of our accounting month-end close and financial reporting process.
• Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in and design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.
• Ability to develop and provide accounting requirements to operationalize complex accounting concepts.
• Research and conclude on accounting policy and document position papers related to new business launches.
• Escalate risks and issues as necessary to leadership.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Ability to identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization.
• Ability to develop partnerships between cross functional stakeholders.
