Finance Manager, Program Management & Controllership , Finance Operations Accounting & Analysis (FOAA)

Amazon.com strives to be Earth"s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon"s evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company"s DNA. The world"s brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

Finance Operations Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) performs accounting and financial planning & analysis services, and our primary customers are Finance Operations, Central Accounting and other Amazon Finance teams. Our vision is to create a world-class Accounting and Finance organization that raises the controllership bar, fosters continuous improvement, builds scalable processes and intelligent tools to support financial reporting and the strategic decision-making of our partners, and lowers the company's cost structure. We focus on controllership and financial stewardship.

FOAA seeks an experienced Finance Manager to support Accounts Receivable Accounting. This role will lead operational excellence initiatives, improve controllership, execute on recurring and holistic analytics; with strategic significance and high exposure. This role will focus on controllership with a mission to identify risk, document, design and implement improvements, and build scalable analytical frameworks to be leveraged by multiple cross-functional teams. This role cultivates an organizational environment that values development, diversity and growth opportunities for all FOAA employees. This role works with and effectively influences partner teams and key stakeholders across multiple organizations. The ideal candidate demonstrates ownership and sound judgment in decisions that have financial, business, operational, or customer implications, which leads the team to take smart risks and innovate. The ideal candidate has extensive financial statement audit and corporate accounting experience and who excels at problem solving, pays attention to details, and drives positive change by evaluating and streamlining existing operational and accounting processes, controls and metrics.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead operational excellence initiatives with strategic significance and high organizational exposure
• Improve controllership by identifying risks, documenting findings, and designing scalable solutions
• Execute recurring and holistic analytics to support business decisions
• Build analytical frameworks for use by multiple cross-functional teams
• Design and implement process improvements across operational and accounting functions
• Cultivate an organizational environment that values development, diversity, and growth opportunities for all FOAA employees
• Partner with and influence key stakeholders across multiple organizations
• Demonstrate ownership and sound judgment in decisions with financial, business, operational, or customer implications
• Drive innovation by leading the team to take smart risks
• Evaluate and streamline existing operational and accounting processes, controls, and metrics
• Apply extensive financial statement audit and corporate accounting expertise to problem-solving