The HQ2 Service Center is seeking an Accounts Receivable (AR) Analyst that will work directly with our customers, upstream billing, sales, and finance teams to coordinate on time collection of revenue. They will own the relationship with the customers and provide day to day support to enable timely payments. This position will lead efforts to dive deep into vendor payment data, drive process improvements, standardize processes, and eliminate root-cause defects within existing systems.
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.
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Key job responsibilities
• Work hand-in-hand with cross functional teams 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Manage highly ambiguous situations and communicate effectively with multiple stake holders.
NOTE: This job is an in office role (5+ days a week).
About the team
This is a strategic team with highly skilled team members with high volumes, high ambiguity and high performance standards. The work location is in Arlington VA and team members are expected to work from office.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable experience particularly collections and billing
- 4+ years’ experience with financial key performance indicators (KPIs) and applying them to analyses
- 4+ years’ experience building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- 4+ years of experience identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- In this role you could be asked to assist with AP and AR – are you flexible to switch between spaces when needed?
- 4+ years of experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- 4+ years of experience in the transactional accounting field
- 4+ years of experience identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
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