Finance Transformation Mgr, Leo Accounting PMO, Leo Accounting PMO

About the role

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.

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 program; provide feedback on priorities, outcomes and timelines.
• Partner with business teams to influence business processes and decision making to scale financial recordkeeping 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent
• Experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field, or a CPA and experience working with stakeholders
• Experience owning program strategy, managing end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience partnering with technology teams to design financial recordkeeping systems for global, multi-currency, multi-entity organizations
• Experience working in the satellite internet and/or telecommunications industries

Qualifications

• 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.
• Deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management, and Financial Systems.
• 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.
• 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.