Sr. Accountant, AWS Technology Infrastructure

About the Role

Amazon’s accounting group offers opportunities at the Accounting Manager level in Legal Entity & Intercompany, Accounting Policy & Reporting, Operations and Capital, Transportation, Payments & Merchant Services, Retail Operations, Digital, and AWS Accounting. This specific role supports AWS Data Center accounting and reporting process.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Supporting AWS Data Center accounting and reporting process
• End-to-end process ownership on Capex and Opex 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
• Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month
• Escalating risks and issues as necessary to leadership
• Strong sense of ownership
• Ability to 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
• Research, conclude and memorialize technical accounting position papers

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA
• 2+ years of Fortune 500 operational accounting experience
• Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
• Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
• Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
• Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions

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 (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

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