Senior Program Manager, Corporate Accounting Enterprise Program Office (CAEPO)

Description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join the Corporate Accounting Enterprise Program Office (CAEPO) responsible for contributing to the launch of automation initiatives across the Accounting organization. This role is based in the US but will have a globally impactful scope and will partner with the worldwide Accounting teams.

About the Role

The Senior Program Manager will collaborate with a broad group of stakeholders from local and global accounting, business, finance, and technical teams to deliver scalable solutions to complex problems. The candidate will benefit from having operated successfully in a fast-paced global organization. Strong prioritization and communication skills are required in representing the accounting organization's responsibility of financial controllership to internal stakeholders from non-financial disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders to influence automation design and implementation with financial best practices
• Gather and document detailed functional accounting requirements and drive the prioritization and execution of technical deliverables
• Define a project plan and think critically to identify, evaluate, and communicate on potential risks and obstacles early in the project lifecycle
• Define and execute on the pre-launch user acceptance testing and lead the automation launch readiness assessment
• Prioritize effectively to manage a diverse portfolio of projects, supporting manual effort reduction, account reconciliation automation, and process efficiency while maintaining financial control
• Streamline program delivery across the accounting organization by standardizing project communications, execution, and documentation, ensuring consistent, scalable global processes

Requirements

• Proven technical and functional expertise related to Blackline financial close automation solutions or similar ERP’s
• Partner with key counterparts across geographies to launch business and/or technical initiatives in a scalable and cost-effective manner
• End-to-end project management across a suite of launches within a program
• Develop a solid understanding of Amazon’s Finance - systems and processes
• Translate complex business requirements into functional designs
• Oversee comprehensive testing of systems changes and development of standard operating procedures, process documentation, and performance metrics
• Manage process transitions/implementations across multiple functions and geographies
• Motivate and influence business, operational, and technical teams to ensure that best practices are followed and implemented
• Identify, assess, track, and mitigate risks at multiple levels
• Proactively monitor program performance to identify, address, and prevent potential issues
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
• 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
• PMP, or MBA