Senior Program Manager, Global Entity Expansion and Restructure
About the role
The Global Entity Expansion and Restructure team is the centralized accounting function responsible for program management of legal entity formation, restructure, and closure. The team sets processes and standards to support diligence, document preparation, and leadership approval of these corporate projects. In this role, you will act as a program manager, serving as an advisor to business teams and owning the transaction approval workstream for director review. You will support global entity formation and restructure projects across a wide range of business teams, collaborating with cross-department leaders and functional accounting teams to ensure a seamless process from proposal to approval and financial system setup.
This position operates in a fast-paced environment, requiring you to manage ambiguity, complexity, and multiple simultaneous projects impacting the global organization. Key leadership principles for this role include earning trust, learning and being curious, ownership, inventing and simplifying, bias for action, and delivering results.
Responsibilities
- Work independently to lead projects supporting Amazon’s corporate structure, ensuring appropriate business support and controllership.
- Deliver complex cross-functional projects while prioritizing work for global project teams and monitoring transactions to maintain standards.
- Identify and communicate project risks to senior leadership, providing clear recommendations for resolution or mitigation.
- Manage risks across disparate business functions, driving mitigation and resolution.
- Build relationships across multiple teams within Amazon to foster collaboration and productivity.
- Work cross-functionally on global business launches, influencing strategy and communicating with senior leadership both within and outside of accounting.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in finance or a related analytical field.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA certification.
- Knowledge of internal control frameworks (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency.
- Familiarity with GAAP research tools and the FASB codification.
- Experience in accounting management in Big Four firms with Fortune 500 clients.
- Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions.
Skills
- Excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify, and communicate risks to senior leadership.
- Experience with financial processes, project management, accounting conclusion documentation, and process design.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and complexity in a fast-paced environment.
Pay
- USA, CA, Culver City: $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually
- USA, MA, North Reading: $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually
- USA, OR, Portland: $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually
- USA, TN, Nashville: $85,900.00 - $146,900.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, Austin: $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington: $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits, including:
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D, and optional supplemental life plans).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
- Medical Advice Line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.