Sr. Accountant, Amazon Leo Accounting
Amazon · Austin, TX · Yesterday
FinanceFull-time
About the role
Amazon has an immediate opening for a Senior Accountant to support Amazon Leo, Amazon's long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites providing high-speed broadband connectivity to underserved communities worldwide. This position offers the opportunity to make significant contributions to the business, while collaborating with diverse teams to solve unusually complex challenges, in a fast-paced, global environment.
Key job responsibilities
- Support various aspects of our accounting and reporting process
- End-to-end process ownership to support finance and business partners
- Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities
- Analysis of complex processes and systems data
- Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month
- Escalate risks and issues as necessary to leadership
- Identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization
- Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects
- Enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
- Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA
- Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
- Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
- Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
Pay
- USA, CA, Culver City: $72,600.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually
- USA, MA, Boston: $66,900.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually
- USA, OR, Portland: $66,900.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually
- USA, TN, Nashville: $60,200.00 - $105,400.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, Austin: $66,900.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington: $66,900.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $82,700.00 - $117,100.00 USD annually
Benefits
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave