Successful candidates will have deep experience across three disciplines - Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), Program Management, and Technology - and is well versed in all three in order to bridge across our diverse group of stakeholders. The candidate needs to be able to easily understand the business lines they engage, supporting information technologies, and finance/accounting/tax disciplines, and the impacts of each on the project.
The candidate also needs to be able to support communications in these areas with current process owners, project stakeholders, and executive level sponsors.
Projects in our portfolio range from urgent compliance needs to long-term multi-year deliveries requiring work across multiple functional teams and modification to multiple distributed systems. As such, the candidate will often be required to dive deep to remove roadblocks and carefully manage scope to deliver results while still earning trust across many functions and stakeholders with executive level visibility and sponsorship.
Key job responsibilities
Managing large initiatives through project initiation, planning, execution, and close-out
o Creating and maintaining project materials used by a cross-functional core team.
o Building workstream project plans and identifying workstream dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process.
o Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate.
o Taking the lead role with stakeholders to define, align on, and refine program objectives, deliverables, and resources
o Obtaining and driving clarity into requirements coming from one or more impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.
o Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner.
o Diving deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project execution, testing, launch and cutover.
o Leading cross functional teams through workstream retrospectives to help drive improvements into team processes; owning and driving process improvements.
o Communicating the overall program roadmap and periodic status updates to executive stakeholder body including Amazon Businesses, Tax, Accounting, Treasury, HR, Legal, Finance Operations and related technical teams
o Developing and implementing enterprise wide program management tools and standards to support program management core competencies within the team and within broader Finance.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.