Global Functional Accounting Leader, Accounts Payable

Key job responsibilities

• Set and execute goals for the FOAA AP functional area globally
• Prioritize automation projects within FOAA AP to drive FOAA baseline savings goals
• Drive operational excellence by identifying business process re-engineering opportunities and partnering with projects team to provide accounting requirements that maintain highest level of controllership
• Drive global reporting format standardization and set Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
• Ensure all Central Accounting Deliverables met within SLA; analyzing account activity; validating account balances are materially correct; explaining business drivers for account balance fluctuations
• Influencing business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and presentation of alternatives
• Facilitate financial review meetings with FinOps leadership, including design and review of internal financial reports
• Raise the bar on hiring, developing, and retaining the best talent to continue building our world class team of finance professionals

About the team

Finance Operations enables and accelerates Amazon’s growth by improving the vendor and seller experience through automation and innovative process improvements that simplify doing business with Amazon and that enable lower prices and greater selection for our customers.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 7+ years of finance technology, forecast & budgeting, or other finance-focused competency experience
• Experience with Tableau, Python, SQB, Quicksight, Cognos or or other BI packages

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA
• Experience in a leadership position managing finance, accounting and operational processes