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ERP Finance Architect, Accounting Transformation Group

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    Amazon is seeking an experienced ERP Finance Solution Architect to lead application ownership, solution delivery, and continuous improvement for critical ERP capabilities supporting Amazon's global finance and accounting operations. This leader will play a key role in driving ERP transformation initiatives, improving scalability and controllership, and ensuring finance applications meet the needs of a rapidly growing and complex business.

    The ideal candidate combines strong ERP product and program leadership with deep understanding of finance processes, application management, and enterprise systems. This role requires close partnership with Accounting, Finance, Product, Engineering, Internal Controls, and business stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize enhancements, manage delivery, and ensure ERP capabilities support both current operational needs and long-term transformation goals.

    This position is well suited for a leader who can operate at both strategic and execution levels, translating business problems into scalable system solutions, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering measurable business outcomes in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the application strategy, roadmap, and execution for assigned ERP capabilities supporting finance and accounting processes.
    • Partner with Accounting, Finance, FinTech, and business stakeholders to understand pain points, define priorities, and translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.
    • Lead end-to-end delivery of ERP enhancements, issue resolution, and transformation initiatives across configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and post-launch support.
    • Drive application governance, change management, and prioritization across competing business needs while balancing speed, risk, and long-term scalability.
    • Ensure ERP solutions support strong controllership, compliance, auditability, and operational excellence across global finance processes.
    • Identify process inefficiencies and system gaps, and lead efforts to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve user experience.
    • Work closely with technical teams to influence architecture, integration design, data flows, and system extensibility while ensuring business needs are clearly represented.
    • Support large-scale finance transformation programs, including ERP modernization, process standardization, and migration from legacy tools or workflows.
    • Lead stakeholder communication across senior leaders, business owners, and partner teams, providing clear updates, risks, decisions, and trade-offs.
    • Mentor team members and contribute to a culture of ownership, high standards, continuous learning, and customer obsession.

    A day in the life

    An ERP Finance Solution Architect at Amazon leads large-scale finance transformation by modernizing ERP capabilities, replacing legacy processes, and standardizing workflows across finance and accounting teams. On a typical day, they partner with Accounting, Finance, FinTech, and program stakeholders to identify manual or fragmented processes, define scalable future-state solutions, and drive migration planning. They lead execution by aligning on scope, requirements, risks, and dependencies while coordinating across business and technical teams. Success in the role comes from simplifying complexity, avoiding unnecessary lift-and-shift decisions, and delivering transformation that improves scalability, controllership, and business value.

    About the team

    Accounting Transformation Group drives initiatives that modernize accounting processes, improve controllership, and enable scalable growth across Amazon. The team works at the intersection of accounting, finance, process design, and technology to build better mechanisms, improve financial operations, and support new business models with strong and efficient financial foundations.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Accounting Policiesunmatched
    • Business Growthunmatched
    • Business Modelunmatched
    • Change Managementunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Delivery Managementunmatched
    • Design Flowsunmatched
    • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
    • Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Finance Softwareunmatched
    • Financial Operationsunmatched
    • Global Financial Marketsunmatched
    • Integration Testingunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Operational Improvementunmatched
    • Operational Supportunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Process Developmentunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Process Managementunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Product Programsunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • System Migrationunmatched
    • Systems Scalabilityunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
    • Workflow Analysisunmatched

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