External job description:
On the Accounts Payable team within Finance Operations (FinOps) you will find yourself working with multi-talented people committed to driving financial improvement scalability and process excellence. To support the growth of businesses at Amazon this candidate must possess a good passion for accountability setting high standards raising the bar and driving results through constant focus on improving existing and future state operations systems and processes. The candidate will be able to think big to create a long-term plan but have good tactical skills to drive day-to-day implementation. They will be able to learn quickly and be willing to experiment with new ideas.
This role on the Accounts Payable team drive operations to achieving key goals performing deep dive and contribute to process improvements. The role will use complex problem-solving skills manage multiple high visibility priorities and maintain a keen attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.
Key responsibilities:
Performing deep dive and contribute to process improvements
Driving operation to achieve key goals
Representing ops in leadership calls
Coordinating with multiple teams- Tech product and Business Partnering teams
Experience in managing process and operational escalations
Drive resolution of critical issues for vendors as well as support processes/systems deep dives to ensure root cause analysis and correction resulting in improved customer experience.
Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects.
Liaise with Business Partnering teams & Businesses to set near medium and long-term operational goals for improvements.
Identifying and evaluating financial and operational risks and opportunities both internal to Finance Operations and to the business driving ad-hoc projects as required.
Basic qualifications:
10 years of overall experience in corporate world
Experience using data to influence business decisions
Demonstrated ability to lead diverse talent within a team work cross-functionally and build consensus on difficult issues
Managerial skills to handle problems and crisis in a confident and decisive manner.
Ability to take responsibility for making difficult decisions taking calculated risks and experimenting with new approaches
Ability to work under pressure and with strict deadlines
Excellent negotiation interpersonal verbal and written communication skills
4 years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
6 years of Account Payable experience
6 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
5 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
5 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
Bachelors degree in accounting finance or business or Masters degree in accounting or finance
Preferred qualifications
5 years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
5 years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models analysis and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g. financial savings operational improvements or customer benefits) experience
MBA or CPA
Knowledge of Advanced Excel SQL/ETL.
Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL MS Access Essbase Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle SAP Lawson JD Edwards)
Experience delivering forecasting budgeting and variance analysis and data interpretation of results
- 10 years of overall experience in corporate world
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Demonstrated ability to lead diverse talent within a team work cross-functionally and build consensus on difficult issues
- Managerial skills to handle problems and crisis in a confident and decisive manner.
- Ability to take responsibility for making difficult decisions taking calculated risks and experimenting with new approaches
- Ability to work under pressure and with strict deadlines
- Excellent negotiation interpersonal verbal and written communication skills
- 4 years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
- 6 years of Account Payable experience
- 6 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 5 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 5 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelors degree in accounting finance or business or Masters degree in accounting or finance
- - Experience working in a matrixed environment influencing strategy and achieving goals by working across the organization
- - Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (esp. MS Excel Word) at an advanced level
- - Experience in operational excellence using six sigma methodologies
- - Proven Project & Operations Management Skills.
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