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 for these corporate projects. Program managers collaborate with global stakeholders, including Business teams, Tax, Legal, FinOps, Treasury, HR, and Accounting, ensuring controllership, consistency, and visibility of critical corporate projects.
In this role, you will serve as an advisor to business teams and own the transaction approval workstream for director review. You will support global entity formation and restructure projects across a wide range of business teams, working with cross-department leaders and functional accounting teams to ensure a seamless process from proposal to approval and financial system setup.
This fast-paced environment requires managing ambiguity and complexity while supporting multiple, simultaneous project launches impacting the global organization. Key leadership principles for this role include Earn Trust, Learn and Be Curious, Ownership, Invent and Simplify, Bias for Action, and Deliver Results.
Responsibilities
- Work independently to lead projects supporting Amazon’s corporate structure, ensuring appropriate business support and controllership.
- Deliver complex cross-functional projects and prioritize work for global project teams, 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.
The role offers opportunities to work on high-visibility, impactful projects across all of Amazon’s businesses.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in finance or a related analytical field.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field.
Qualifications
- 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.
- CPA certification (preferred).
- Knowledge of internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency.
- Experience with GAAP research tools and the FASB codification.
- Experience in accounting management at a Big Four firm with Fortune 500 clients (preferred).
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
- Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with options for 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).
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