Senior Accountant - Transformation , Finance and Business Integration

Amazon • Portland, OR • 10h ago

Description

Amazon has an immediate opening for a Senior Accountant -Transformation to join our Finance and Business Integration team.

The Senior Accountant - Transformation role supports and directly influences the launches of some of Amazon's newest global business initiatives in the consumer products, digital, merchant services, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business. The Finance Analyst will work closely with the global financial systems team, accounting operations teams, tax, treasury, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the business teams.

Key job responsibilities

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 for this position will have a minimum of three years' professional experience working with financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. They will have developed a passion for delivering process improvement across the accounting organization. They are expected to have a deep sense of ownership, and the ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.

In addition, successful candidates will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing through ambiguity and complexity, and demonstrate and ability to support multiple, simultaneous, project launches at any one time. Candidates are also expected to have sufficient finance experience to help the project launch team identify and incorporate the necessary financial reporting and internal control elements into the systems or tools that are developed to support new business activities.

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules

Preferred Qualifications

2+ years of Fortune 500 operational accounting experience

CPA

Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency

Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification

Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients

Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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