Finance Manager, Financial Business & Integration, Devices and Services

Finance Manager, Financial Business & Integration, Devices and Services

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Amazon has an immediate opening for a Finance Manager to join our Finance and Business Integration team.

This position supports and can directly influence the launches of some of Amazon’s newest global business initiatives in the consumer products, digital initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business. This leader will work closely with the global financial systems team, accounting operations teams, tax, treasury, and others and represent the accounting organization to various stakeholders. In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class 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 are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.

Key job responsibilities

As a Finance Manager, you will:

• Own and Manage:
  You’ll own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Automate:
  You’ll work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate.
• Support Expansion:
  You’ll support the expansion of Amazon business by ensuring implementation of controlled processes to keep Amazon’s financial statements materially correct.
• Consult:
  You’ll operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different stakeholder teams across Amazon.
• Make Decisions:
  You’ll be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion.
• Collaborate:
  You’ll collaborate with Amazonians of diverse backgrounds.

Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.

About the team

We are the Devices & Services Finance and Business Integration (FBI) team within Amazon Accounting. As an FBI team, we are responsible for project management of the accounting workstream of Devices & Services business launches and supporting our Devices & Services accounting team. Our scope covers Amazon-designed and manufactured devices and the digital services that are provided through these devices. Digital devices are sold through online portals, Amazon's physical sale locations, and third-party offline resellers.

Our team also supports Appstore, the emerging Alexa business and subsidiary integrations such as Ring, Blink, eero, and Zoox.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA
• Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
• Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
• Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
• Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions

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