Finance Transformation Mgr, Leo Accounting PMO, Leo Accounting PMO

It's a new Day 1 for Leo and we are looking for team members to join the Accounting PMO supporting this emerging business.

This position supports and directly influences the launch and expansion of Amazon Leo and drives strategic initiatives that help grow and scale these businesses. This leader will champion controllership and scalability as they partner closely with global stakeholders including business product managers, financial engineering teams, accounting operations, business finance, tax, treasury, and others to deliver world-class financial solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible.

This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to influence leaders are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.

Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines - Accounting, Program Management, and Financial Systems. The role requires an individual with finance and accounting knowledge, experience working with technology teams to design and build world-class financial systems integration solutions, and the capacity to accelerate the launch and management of an ongoing financial integration program. They need the ability to influence senior leaders and the willingness to drive the implementation of decisions across a global scope, balancing time to market with investments in automation.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Develop and drive new programs with cross-functional stakeholders, defining end-to-end strategy, owning and managing implementation activities, developing processes, metrics, documentation, and communications, and supporting continuous improvement of programs.

• Partner with worldwide business, tech, product/program teams on delivering high-quality programs; provide feedback on priorities, outcomes, and timelines.

• Partner with business teams to influence business processes and decision-making to scale financial record-keeping health while meeting business objectives.

• Communicate and influence adoption of new/updated programs and processes to leaders, employees, and cross-functional organizations.

• Collaborate and build relationships with business, accounting, technology, and finance owners globally to build scalable financial automation with the highest degree of controllership.

• Look around corners, is biased for action in ensuring the team is set up for success in achieving our goals, and earns trust through broad stakeholder influence.

• Implement and manage the launch policies and exception mechanisms to identify, inventory, track, and resource automation with multiple technology teams, as well as report status of financial automation initiatives and hold leaders accountable across multiple functional organizations.