Senior Tax Analyst, Tax Controversy

Amazon’s Tax Controversy team is seeking a Senior Tax Analyst to help coordinate and support ongoing domestic and foreign audits, and compliance matters handled by the Tax Department. Responsibilities will include a wide range of tasks, such as investigating and responding to internal and external information requests, preparing financial audit documentation, preparing presentations, coordinating responses for multiple audit requests, scheduling, and assistance as a document custodian. As a part of this role, the candidate will also focus on identifying areas of process improvements to help drive efficiencies. The successful candidate will possess the ability to complete multiple concurrent projects at the same time with little guidance; react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick response; take effective action without always knowing all relevant information; and solve problems that affect people within the group or other related groups. This role has regular interaction with leaders in various business units across Amazon.Key job responsibilities- Preparing, planning and coordinating responses to information document requests, due diligence requests, and other similar inquiries from tax authorities.- Preparing presentations on various tax issues to tax authorities.- Coordinating communications with other Amazon Tax teams as well as other subject matter experts.- Assisting with informational interviews of members in various business teams and functional interviews.- Researching and documenting domestic and international tax issues, from a controversy perspective.- Managing relationships with external advisors on tax controversy matters.- Developing strong working relationships among cross-functional teams, including Legal, Accounting, HR, and other teams.- Implementing and executing organizational processes to help the Tax Controversy Team meet its goal of continuous process improvements related to the team’s objectives.- Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large quantities of financial data related to requests by tax authorities.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level- Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department ...

Finance Manager, Marketing Communications

Amazon seeks a Finance Manger to join the Marketing Finance team. We are responsible for managing a portfolio of marketing investments across a diverse set of channels which are used to drive new and existing customers to the Amazon store. We measure and track these investments with the aim of optimizing long term free cash flow.The Finance Manager will be the direct finance partner for the Outbound Communications business, which manages all interactions with customers through channels such as push notifications and email. They will be provide strategic guidance and thought leadership for short and long-range investment decisions, build mechanisms and tools to surface key analytical insights, dive deep into large sets of data, prioritize and deliver projects that aim to continuously improve our scale and efficiency, and manage the controllership. Specifically, they will lead the launch of new channels across Emerging countries, develop investment frameworks and define willingness to pay for those new channels, work with data scientists to build message optimization guidance, and help deliver strong growth plans.This role requires a self-starter with business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, a track record of influencing business partners with data-driven decision making, and the ability to move fast. Communication and collaboration are key, as the individual must interact with members across product, marketing, tech, finance and various leadership teams.Key job responsibilitiesDrive investment strategy discussions via insightful and relevant analysis on historical and projected performanceManage controllership with a high degree of accuracy across planning and reportingLead Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Business ReviewsPartner with Senior leadership to evaluate the financial impact of decisionsBe a steward for maximizing long term free cash flow of investmentsPartner with various business and tech teams to become a subject matter expert on systems and outcomesBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree ...

Finance Manager, Devices Finance

Do you want to create and deliver innovative products for millions of customers around the world? Amazon is seeking a highly analytical and action-oriented Finance Manager to partner with our Sales and Go-To-Market (GTM) leadership team in supporting our Tablet product line. In this role, you will play a critical part in driving our sales plans, ensuring financial discipline, and influencing strategic decisions to enhance the performance of our Tablet business. You’ll also play a key role in owning the entire P&L for the Tablet Product line. Key job responsibilities• P&L Ownership: Lead the end-to-end ownership of Tablets P&L, including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and variance reporting to support business objectives.• Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership: Cultivate and manage key relationships with Business and Devices FP&A, collaborating with Sales and GTM teams to establish financial guardrails, plan promotional roadmaps, and drive ROI-focused sales campaigns.• Sales Performance Management: Analyze sales metrics, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to optimize strategies and drive revenue growth.• System & Tools Management: Serve as the system owner for unit sales planning and forecasting, acting as a super user for key financial tools and systems.• Reporting & Analytics: Develop and maintain financial models and dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs), providing regular updates to senior leadership. • Documentation Creation: Prepare comprehensive financial reviews and reports for Monthly Business Reviews (MBR), Guidance, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), and planning cycles.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience- 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Revenue Accounting Lead, Kuiper Accounting

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Project Kuiper, Amazon’s long-term initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world? It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s next billion-dollar business and we are looking for an entrepreneurial-minded Accounting Lead to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about space, technology and bringing broadband internet to unserved and unserved communities. Key job responsibilities• Drive projects, provide accounting guidance and often serve as first point of contact for finance and business partners to resolve issues.• Research, conclude and memorialize technical accounting position papers pertaining to new business initiatives and complex arrangements/transactions.• Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to influence the design of systems, processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.• Deal with ambiguity and able to reprioritize based on multiple business needs.• Escalate risks and issues as necessary to leadership.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field- Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. ...

Finance Manager, EC2 Networking, AWS

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business and finance partnering role with full P&L responsibility? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Join us at AWS Finance!Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform.AWS Finance seeks a world class Finance Manager to be a key leader supporting the AWS EC2 Networking business. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 has grown to be one of the fastest growing and most strategic suite of products in the AWS portfolio.This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including service general managers, product managers, engineering leaders, sales and business development leadership to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership to EC2N Services.The position will own P&Ls and perform usage and revenue analyses for new services and for existing services, deliver ad-hoc business projects and analyses, conduct usage and revenue planning, and provide financial insights.This role requires solid skills in thought leadership, a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations. This role requires strong communication skills and has regular interaction with various AWS business units & senior leadership.Key job responsibilitiesThis role is critical in not only addressing financial deliverables (Weekly Business Review, Monthly Financial Reviews, Operating Plans, pricing/discounts, etc.) but also driving the business to find efficiencies to grow profit. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively and manage multiple time sensitive deliverables across a matrixed organization. The individual will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 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- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Finance Manager, EC2 Core Finance

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Come join Amazon Web Services Finance! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world.Key job responsibilitiesAWS Finance seeks a Finance Manager to support several EC2 Core businesses. This role is critical in not only addressing financial deliverables (Weekly Business Review, Monthly Financial Reviews, Operating Plans, pricing/discounts, etc.) but also driving the business to find efficiencies to grow profit. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively and manage multiple time sensitive deliverables across a matrixed organization. The individual will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders.A day in the lifeServe as the key business partner working directly with AWS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations. Build financial models for new business concepts, make analytical judgments, and deliver data intensive analyses to drive meaningful change. Present financial summary and business insights to the business and finance leadership. Develop and standardize financial reporting packages. Drive continuous improvements in profitability, free cash flow, and operational efficiency.About the teamThis role will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including Product Managers, Engineers and GMs, to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership. This role requires a self-starter and independent individual with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results- Experience in 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 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 building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Development Finance

Amazon seeks a talented professional to work within its Corporate Development organization. The person in this high-visibility role will be responsible for helping to evaluate a wide range of business opportunities, including M&A, investments and other strategic opportunities. In addition, the person in this position will assist in due diligence; conduct extensive research on industries, potential partners, and investment strategies; and communicate findings and recommendations to our senior management and executive team.This position plays a key, active role on a small team that drives corporate transactions across businesses at Amazon. The person will support decision-making by senior management by leading the financial analyses and thinking that guide strategy formation. Many assignments will be highly ambiguous and require an independent, intellectually curious individual who can frame situations through multiple lenses including of the end-customer, business owner and corporate finance professional.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• Bachelor’s degree• 3+ years of corporate development, private equity, investment banking (coverage or M&A) experience with a focus on technology, media, entertainment, e-commerce/retail, grocery, health care, or advertising industries ...

Finance Manager, PXT Finance

Finance is all about the numbers…unless you work at Amazon; it’s knowing the numbers, writing documents and so much more. Enthusiasm and energy help us deliver new ideas, and solutions. Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily? At Amazon, we move with purpose and speed, and this requires we work with a dynamic network of Operations, HR, Tech and Retail partners. Our Finance Managers work with multiple sites, they help others understand financial decisions and are *the* trusted business advisor. They employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have the most up to date and reliable information to help them make the best possible decision. Come teach us a few things, and we’ll teach you a few things as we navigate the most customer-centric company on Earth.The Finance Manager for the People Experience & Technology (PXT) Finance Compensation will provide financial insights and business partnership to Amazon's Worldwide PXT Compensation and related technical support teams. This highly visible finance role will provide reliable data and analysis to help with decision making and planning, as well as become a trusted business advisor to the leaders of our PXT organization. The ideal candidate is a quick learner and comfortable with ambiguity. S/he possesses a keen attention to detail, has a passion for analytics, problem-solving and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. The role entails interaction with PXT leadership, Finance leadership, Accounting and Payroll teams and requires a balance of strong verbal and written communication, partnership skills, and delivering results. This is a perfect position for someone who knows how to manage fast and smart and deals well with ambiguity. You will also provide the business with big leadership bringing a deep knowledge and a proven record of accomplishment. You already know how to make sense between which details that make all the difference, and those that don’t add value. Position Responsibilities:1. Conduct financial analysis and strategic planning in support of business groups. 2. Partner with vice president and/or director and category/business leaders in setting profitability, business expansion, and product selection goals. 3. Work directly for business leaders and cross-functional teams to present results of ad hoc business and statistical analysis and recommendations to senior management for optimal decision making. 4. Develop and automate reporting of key performance metrics and analysis to achieve business goals. 5. Perform business and financial forecasting and spreadsheet modeling by writing complex SQL queries to gather the financial and operational data needed for the analysis and using advanced excel spreadsheet modeling techniques. 6. Review and measure financial and operational performance on a weekly basis with business team and report to senior management using financial and operational metrics, including performing ad-hoc audits of the financial metrics used for data accuracy. 7. Work on monthly close process working closely with accounting to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management. 8. Oversee and review bi-yearly operational planning activities for detailed business level budgeting and forecasting, and create detailed financials plans. 9. Update the detailed financial plans on a regular basis. 10. Work with business teams to create daily forecasts based on the previously created monthly forecasts. 11. Define reporting methodologies. 12. Create new reporting, maintain and run reports using tools such as Excel, Essbase, Cognos, and SQL. 13. Conduct financial, statistical and business analyses, business and financial forecasting, and financial spreadsheet modeling, using a broad range of tools and technologies. 14. Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports. 15. Partial telecommuting permitted; employees will be required to report to office multiple days per week.Key job responsibilities• Providing business partner finance support to the leaders of PXT Compensation teams related to compensation modeling, planning, analysis, metrics, and reporting • Diving deep into the financial data and becoming a subject matter expert to provide additional insights • Partnering directly with the Finance Org's and central FP&A groups to collaborate on metrics, goals, variance analysis and business reviews; • Building and fostering effective relationships and networks with the PXT and Finance organizations • Proven ability to manage a team with competing priorities & provide level-headed guidance during unexpected events • Partner with PXT compensation team to develop financial models that quantify the cost impact of proposed compensation changes • Provide financial insights to senior operations and finance leadership for the hourly field workforce • Liaise between PXT compensation and local business finance teams to align on budget and forecast of people cost • Provide ad hoc support to executive leadership and business finance teams across Amazon for inquiries around cost per head • Develop and streamline processes around finance approvals for on- and off-cycle compensation changes • Collaborate cross-functionally with tech teams in finance and compensation to develop automated solutions for recurring analysis and data accessA day in the life• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment. • The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions. • Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads. • Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability • An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth. • Solid business judgment and controllership focus. • Strong PC modeling skills, including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access, Python and SQL.About the teamPXT Finance Tenets: 1. Our priority is Amazon’s long-term financial health by guiding our business partners through difficult tradeoff decisions in the short-term, thus allowing all Amazonians to thrive.2. We consistently develop new mechanisms and leverage current systems to provide accurate, forward-looking financial data, which drives meaningful business insights. 3. We are builders that use science and technology to innovate at scale, as we strive to be the most innovative Finance team. 4. We strive to be the source of truth by leveraging our expertise and experience; we apply analytical rigor, process improvement, and standardization to make impactful high judgement, high velocity decisions.5. We are determined to make PXT-Finance a destination. We commit to providing a culture where meaningful work, development of key skills, and career progression are pinnacles of success. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Financial Review Mgr - LatAm, Transportation Risk & Compliance

Want to help Earth’s most customer-centric company design, implement and monitor risk mitigation strategies to improve the customer experience and protect Amazon’s brand?In this role, you will work closely with Amazon's Last Mile transportation businesses to plan, scope, and execute financial reviews to assess carrier financial performance against expectations. You will be expected to apply finance and accounting concepts to new and existing business models, clearly and concisely communicate identified findings to carrier partners, and internally report review results in a timely and effective manner. You will provide carriers with consultative support to properly classify expense transactions to ensure completeness and accuracy of reported amounts. You will also work collaboratively with the business, legal, finance, tech, and human resource teams to implement world-class, customer-centric, financial review solutions and process improvements.This position requires the ability to travel periodically.Key job responsibilities- Collect, analyze, and manage quantitative data, performing financial analysis, ad-hoc deep dives, and creating meaningful reports across a variety of data sources- Demonstrable problem-solving skills using data to drive decisions- Monitor and drive projects through to completion on time- Establish successful partnerships with internal and external teams to execute tactical initiatives.- Demonstrable excellent communication skills (written and verbal) A day in the lifeFinancial Review Managers engage with Carrier Partners, plan, scope, execute, and report on financial outcomes. The individual provides consultative support to properly classify expense transactions to ensure completeness and accuracy of reported amounts. Financial Review Managers will also consult with business, legal, and tech teams to implement world-class, customer-centric, financial review solutions and process improvements.The individual will work effectively in a team environment and, as individual contributors, be able to work remotely and effectively review the work of other remote team members.About the teamTransportation Risk and Compliance (TRC) is the voice of risk and compliance for Amazon’s transportation businesses across 16 regions. We proactively identify and manage risks through risk mitigation strategies and provide assurance that Amazon and our carrier partners comply with the highest transportation and legal standards (including legislative, regulatory, and contractual). Anchored by sound subject matter expertise, processes, and growing technology solutions, our TRC leaders improve public safety and enable business growth as we work diligently to serve our customers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree or equivalent- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience- Experience handling confidential information- Written and verbal communication skills in English and Portuguese ...

Finance Manager, CT FP&A, Customer Trust Finance

The WW Selling Partner Services team's vision is to enable every brand – from the small business with an idea to the large, multi-national corporation – to be able to thrive and grow into a global selling success. Our mission (i.e., our roadmap to achieve that vision) is to enable the long-term success of our selling partners by providing the most trusted shopping and selling experience and by providing solutions for accelerating our selling partners’ business growth. We are entrusted with preventing fraud and abuse, and we are guardians for all our customers. We are advocates and innovators who delight buying customers by enabling our selling partners to succeed. We deliver at massive scale through technology, science, and expert human judgment while continuing to think even bigger about the future. We do all of this while creating a team culture that we are proud of – one that builds fulfilling careers, is inclusive and gives back the community, and is fun to be a part of.The Customer Trust FP&A team has an immediate opening for a Finance Manager role that will lead the month-end close process across the WW Customer Trust portfolio and drive innovation as we look to elevate these functions. This is an exciting opportunity to drive and influence positive change across the growing and evolving Customer Trust business.Good communication skills are key. You are a good writer that is effective at communicating with a broad audience. You enjoy writing insightful narratives that inform senior leadership of what's happening in the business.Key job responsibilities- Own month-end close and quarter end close reporting for Customer Trust- Supporting planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis - Simplifying and automating processes and reports within the WW Customer Trust organisation- Partnering with key stakeholders to facilitate achieving goals established by leadership- Delivering key insights as a highly trusted resource for information about our financial data, processes, and the business operations we supportBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Senior Manager Finance Transformation, Corporate Accounting Enterprise Program Office

Amazon is a pioneer, dynamic company that thrives on unique and peculiar ways. We take pride in our single-minded obsession over customer satisfaction and our ability to maintain a curious and innovative culture no matter how large the company grows. We endeavor to build our legacy as Earth’s most customer-centric company and to continue to cultivate and nourish our innovative environment through our mission to hire the best. The Corporate Enterprise Accounting Program Office (CAEPO) is seeking a creative and passionate senior leader with excellent project management skills help achieve our vision to provide stewardship for Global Account Reconciliation program a world-class enterprise resource planning (ERP) onboarding experience to our global business partners in support of Amazon’s journey to become earth’s most customer-centric company. We love to offer our customers unique world-class experiences, and we invite you to help Amazon make history!. The role requires managing and overseeing cross-functional programs while ensuring successful delivery across multiple verticals. The position involves developing and refining program strategies, leading teams effectively, and setting clear objectives using data analytics to drive improvements .Key job responsibilitiesThe Senior Manager will lead Amazon's global account reconciliation automation strategy while driving complex, large-scale project launches. They will develop scalable solutions and balance system improvements with new initiatives.This role manages a comprehensive program portfolio, driving technical deliverables while standardizing communications and documentation across global processes. The position requires building strong relationships with key stakeholders, leading senior-level discussions, and partnering with business, tech, and finance teams to ensure cross-functional collaboration.The successful candidate will define functional accounting requirements, monitor program performance, and manage complex problems and escalations while maintaining financial controls. They will also be responsible for talent management, including attracting and retaining team members, planning departmental resources, and optimizing work assignments.About the teamThe Corporate Accounting Enterprise Program Office is dedicated to delivering long-term, robust financial systems and processes to Amazon through best-in-class program management .Our mission focuses on maintaining a well-controlled environment that effectively supports financial reporting and disclosure requirements .CAEPO consists of a cross-functional team of tenured accounting and financial services subject matter experts along with technical project managers specializing in ERP and financial systems The team serves internal customers including Accounting, Finance, Tax, FOAA, Finance Ops, Public Policy, Public Relations, Country Business Leaders, Auditors and Regulators .BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Fire TV

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member in our Fire TV Finance team. Over the past decade Amazon has developed a number of market-leading, innovative, and fast-growing digital and mobile businesses including Kindle, Kindle Fire Tablets, Fire TV, and Echo. This is an exciting opportunity to support the Amazon Fire TV team featuring the 2K, 4K and Omni smart TVs portfolio. We are looking for an entrepreneurial minded candidate who wants to join one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work with a cross-functional team including demand generation, marketing, product development, and supply planning to help develop and execute a multi-year strategy to continue growing the Fire TV business globally. The successful candidate will have shown experience in supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments and will involve collaboration across different business partners, therefore requiring strong interpersonal and communication skills. This role requires a self starter with strong business partnership, a keen attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects effectively.Key job responsibilities- Partner across business teams to forecast and report on weekly/monthly/quarterly financial performance- Develop and maintain mechanisms for supply and inventory planning - Partner with horizontal Finance teams to drive free cash flow initiatives and forecasts- Developing success metrics, dynamic scenario models, and core financial insights to drive decision-making with business partnersBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Accounting Manager, Project Kuiper

Amazon is a fast paced, dynamic, high-tech company based in Seattle. Amazon has an immediate opening for an Accounting Manager to support all aspects of the accounting for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved or underserved communities around the world. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding and experience operating in a complex, high-growth stage, multi-disciplinary organization. The candidate will work closely with all members of the cross-functional teams to design, develop and integrate financial information technology systems to support the operational and financial reporting requirements of the business. The candidate will serve as the subject matter expert on accounting policy and technical accounting matters. The candidate will also have technical accounting experience in reviewing commercial contracts and assessing the accounting treatment in accordance with Amazon Accounting Policy and US GAAP. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.Key job responsibilities• Perform review of non-standard, complex contracts and determine accounting treatment. Create templates to document these conclusions and help operationalize the accounting. • Conduct research on accounting literature pertaining to new business initiatives, complex contracts and/or transactions. Significant accounting transactions include research and development (ASC 730), manufacturing activity involving capitalization (ASC 360) and inventory (ASC 330) considerations.• Support all aspects of our accounting and reporting process, including conducting quarterly business updates with senior leadership. • Have an ability to navigate through a large amount of ambiguity and drive consensus between cross-functional stakeholders, clearly communicate dependencies and manage/track expectations. • Identify, evaluate and implement Project Kuiper finance systems infrastructure and reporting needs to support business growth and drive scalable tools and mechanisms.• Demonstrate crisp communication skills, have experience communicating project status to a broad audience and be willing to follow appropriate escalation channels to ensure delivery as planned.• Partner with members of the financial operations and financial technology teams to ensure proper application of accounting policies and implement global controls, procedures and integration with Amazon global financials. • Empower the team to proactively identify accounting issues by developing trainings to coach team members on performing technical accounting assessments, contract reviews and effective documentation of technical accounting positions. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field- Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum ...

Finance Manager, Amazon Fresh Stores Operations

Be a Part of a Unique Growth Story!Grocery is the next great growth opportunity for Amazon! With the 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, and rapid growth in new store formats and online delivery, grocery has quickly become a must win category. Amazon Fresh Stores Finance is well positioned to help the business drive growth, and unlock the full potential of the Amazon flywheel.As the Finance Manager for Amazon Fresh Stores Operations, you will own key forecasting and analytics for under the roof operations for the newly launched, mass-market omni-channel Fresh Stores grocery business. Partnering with the Operations team, you will provide strategic decision support and financial controllership necessary to drive profitable growth. You will play a central role in guiding the business on the financial implications of its growth and investment plans, while keeping executive leadership abreast of the business’ performance. You will provide best in class finance partnership to a strong business team and drive process and productivity improvements for the business and finance organizations.As our team continues to grow, we are looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon and within the broader Amazon Grocery organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multi-functional teams, to lead new programs and initiatives.This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across the World Wide Grocery and World Wide Operations organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. Key job responsibilities- Partner with the business team to define financial and non-financial trade-offs. You make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure.- Oversee financial reporting for your business area. Understand input drivers and validate integrity of the reporting to influence strategic decision-making and planning.- Use data to identify disruptive ideas and provide advice to business leaders across the globe.- Drive accountability across the Amazon Finance Operations team leading weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews.- Create tools and processes that enable the Amazon Fresh Stores Operations leadership team to diagnose the business and achieve operational goals.- Contribute to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.About the teamAmazon Fresh Stores Operations Finance is part of the Global Specialty Fulfillment (GSF) Operations team. GSF covers a portfolio of businesses with unique fulfillment and operational capabilities such as Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market Online, Amazon Heavy/Bulky, Same Day Operations, Locker+, and Treasure Truck. Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses. Our teams experiment, fail fast, learn, and scale rapidly, and we have a culture of data-driven decision-making.Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated that they are a self-starter, collaborate effectively and influence business partners, think long-term, and can support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Prime Video Finance

Senior Finance Analyst sought for Prime Video across a diverse set of countries including Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and others within Latin America and Oceania. This role blends direct management of pan-regional slate planning and fixed marketing budgets with country teams, alongside reporting and management of centralized functions.You will be a collaborative forward-thinker, and will join our International Video finance team. In this key role, you will act as the primary finance partner and trusted advisor to the marketing heads (Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), ensuring budget management and spend drivers are well understood, providing your business partners with actionable insights, and calibrating marketing spend. You will also own centralized finance function across all regions, which include metrics calibration and updates, automation of reporting structures and planning cycles, and management of headcount. You will act as a go to person for all finance related questions for your business areas. This role will be at the intersection of Marketing, Business and Finance teams, relied on to drive actionable insights and create efficiencies, and make Prime Video customers first choice for streaming.This opportunity is ideal for a finance professional who is passionate about video entertainment and looking for a challenge in a high growth, new business environment where the breath of country oversight offers both complexity and opportunity to drive insight. The right individual will have experience working cross-functionally and the ability to influence business leaders through effective verbal and written communication and logical reasoning.Key job responsibilities• Finance partner to your designated marketing area, by collaborating with the business on analysis and insight generation to support decision making• Audit fixed marketing spend, performing deep dive analysis on problems to understand root causes, and make decisions based on data• Formalize, streamline and drive improvements to workstreams across marketing and centralized finance• Lead planning, forecasting and budgeting for fixed marketing• Lead ad hoc financial analyses and business development initiatives. Lead and participate as the key finance stakeholder in cross functional teams• Scale automation for existing reporting partnering with BIE, as well as build new mechanisms• Own headcount reporting to business leader, and act as owner of liaising with central teams to maintain and track accurate headcountBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Finance Manager, Amazon Robotics

​​Interested in robotics and automation? Want to work on building and deploying technologies that don't exist anywhere else in the world? Eager to explore the complexities of global supply chains and how things get made? We are growing a team to support our Global Robotics Delivery group, which helps deploy automation across the Amazon supply chain. Our Finance team is currently seeking a Finance Manager with a proven ability to work within a dynamic environment and partner with senior leadership to achieve their goals. This role will partner with our supply chain and logistics teams to support decision making, scale new products and systems, and drive efficiency.This person must thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate an understanding of core finance and accounting principles, and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics. Amazon is fast-growing, which means that employees are often asked to perform tasks with a range of difficulties. Candidates must be motivated, disciplined, and able to work effectively autonomously. Key job responsibilitiesAs a Finance Manager, you will collaborate directly with key business stakeholders to provide performance insights, support strategic decision making and planning, develop and maintain financial models evaluating opportunities, and provide recommendations based on data. You will also identify opportunities for efficiency and cost savings across the organization. Primary responsibilities include:- Perform detailed financial analysis on key initiatives and proposals- Establish, invent, and maintain operating and business metrics to evaluate performance and efficiency- Lead short and long-term financial planning and budgeting for your space- Act as a controller on spending proposals and ensure the team is meeting their planBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)- 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Finance Manager, Selling Parnter Services

The Selling Partner Services (SPS) team is looking for a Finance Manager for the Customer Trust (CT) org. The SPS organization employees over 20,000 employees who provide support to Amazon's Selling Partners while also ensuring that we protect Amazon customers from bad actors. This team would focus on ensuring selling partners are complaint with regulations, so we can identify and remove bad actors for entering Amazon. In this role, you will be the central FP&A support across 7 directors. In addition to driving central reporting, you will drive global, cross-team decisions to help reduce costs, acting as the trusted finance advisor for the organization on complex, confidential projects, while maintaining a high quality of service for Amazon's Selling Partners and Customers.If you are interested in risk management, compliance, and acting as a financial advisor to a organization stopping crime, this is the role for you.About the team https://trustworthyshopping.aboutamazon.com/approach Key job responsibilities- Act as a trusted advisor to the Business, operation, and product teams, creating their goals and advising where they should be investing to drive automation, productivity, and other improvements across their organization- Drive standardization and automation of planning and reporting processes across several organizations- Analyze Opex variances vs. plan and provide insight to business partners including cost-saving and process improvement recommendations- Partner with Senior Leaders (Senior Managers and Directors) in the business, product and operations to tackle ad-hoc request like launching a new program, making trade-off decisions, and driving conversations on Down Stream Impacts and Return on Investment.- Support internal customer groups in all finance matters including budgeting, forecasting and financial controls- Drive process improvements to Invent & Simplify efforts across cross-org mechanisms BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Senior Accountant, Amazon Accounting

Amazon is a pioneering, dynamic, and energetic company that thrives on unique and peculiar ways. We take pride in our single-minded obsession over customer satisfaction and our ability to maintain a curious and vibrant culture no matter how large the company grows. We endeavor to build our legacy as Earth’s most customer-centric company and to continue to cultivate and nourish our innovative environment through our mission to hire the best. If you are a financial accounting professional who consistently exceeds expectations, who dares to make bold decisions, and whose ears perk up at the prospect of a challenge, then Amazon is a place where your career can flourish.When working at Amazon, your ability to make a difference and take ownership of your career begins on day one. You can expect a collaborative, team-driven environment that encourages employees to learn, be curious, and have a bias for action. Part of this propensity for continuous learning shows itself in Amazon’s strong encouragement of movement and growth within the Accounting department and within the company as a whole. We aim to hire and develop those who will raise the bar over the course of their career at Amazon (and not just in their first position). Key job responsibilities• Supporting various aspects of our accounting and reporting process. • End-to-end process ownership to support finance and business partners. • Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities. • Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month. • Escalating risks and issues as necessary to leadership. • Strong sense of ownership. • Ability to identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization. • Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects. • Enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups. • Research, conclude and memorialize technical accounting position papers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field ...

Finance Manager, Digital and Device Customer Service, Device, Digital and Alexa Support Customer Service

At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, creative, and driven people. If you want to help make history and have fun, Amazon is the place for you.. At the core of this customer centricity is the Amazon Customer Service (CS) organization. We are looking for a Finance Manager to join the Global CS Finance Team for the Digital and Device products category (D2) including Echo, Kindle e-Readers, FireTV, Amazon Video, Gaming, Music, Alexa Voice Services and more. This position reports to the Sr. Finance Manager of the D2AS organization. The pace and growth of the business along with its increasing complexity makes this role an exciting, interesting and very challenging proposition. As such it requires an individual who is motivated to make a big impact. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and will be a creative and analytical problem solver. Key Responsibilities: · Regional responsibility for OPEX planning including full year and outlook planning, month end analysis and commentary and ad hoc work for Variable and Fixed costs as well as global headcount · Own relationship with contact forecasting team, Headcount capacity planning teams · Business Partnering with Technical Support Operations leadership · Point of contact for reporting of Costs, Contacts and Units for D2AS, for several Digital and Device Product Lines, explaining the cost drivers and providing variance analyses to those product line finance teams · Collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data and creating meaningful, actionable reports to drive business improvement and cost reduction · Work closely with the central finance teams on common approaches and timelines · Key team member of World Wide Digital and Devices Customer Service Finance team that contributes to the development of financial planning and analysis tools and Finance Planning & Analysis processes that impact the global strategy BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Senior AR Collections Manager, FinOps Support Center - HQ2

We are Amazon’s Finance Operations Services organization (FinOps) and responsible for Amazon’s Accounts Payables (AP) and Receivables (AR) Teams. We ensure on-time, accurate payments, billings and collections on behalf of North American Business Channels. If motivating effective teams, raising the bar by diving deep into data, and driving process improvements are your key attributes, then Amazon’s Finance Operations Accounts Receivable team has the perfect role for you.We are seeking a hands-on-team leader to spearhead an Accounts Receivable team that drives operational excellence and delivers measurable business impact. The ideal candidate will have excellent program management, problem solving and communication skills and be effective interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. Candidate will work directly with customers and their management tools, processes, and mechanisms, as well as Amazon internal stakeholders and fulfillment operations to scale our growing business and address payment and billing questions and issues. This dive deep leader will also generate and leverage insights based on Amazon’s unique data and metrics to lead strategic discussions with Financial Operations business teams to support FinOps leaders on making informed decisions. This role is based in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy-efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth, including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.Key job responsibilities• Work hand-in-hand with cross functional team of accounts receivable (AR) analysts in collaboration with upstream business, operations and technology teams to integrate scalable end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes and solutions.• Set and execute business objectives; validate, monitor, and deliver on key success metrics, and execute on delivery roadmaps.• Partner with senior leaders to drive strategic initiatives for long-term success• Execute accurate financial reporting and planning, tracking performance, and providing recommendations for corrective actions• Obsess on customer service and train new hires to do the same by establishing the Amazon Day 1 Culture based on our Leadership Principles.• Systemically intake, escalate, triage, and resolve vendor payments, contracts, and issues.• Recognize escalation trends and identify underlying defects and root causes.• Leverage data from numerous databases and internal tools (using Excel, SQL, or other data management systems) to perform reporting and analysis.• Work across worldwide time zones as needed. NOTE: This role requires working from the Arlington, VA Office, 5+ days per week. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 5+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience- 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience- 3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 3+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience ...