Description

This role supports the global Operating Expense (OpEx) teams, including General OpEx, Marketing expenses and Compensation and Benefits.

The OpEx space offers great opportunities to learn about Amazon’s broad landscape due to vast impact of OpEx. This role is planned for high growth and leadership visibility, and will lead initiatives across OpEx teams and business launches. This is a great time to join the team as there are many exciting projects involving CFO/VP goals in the pipeline. You will have the opportunity to influence the overall vision and strategy to automate certain OpEx tech debt that may require teams to build new systems.

The role requires collaboration with a wide variety of tech teams FinTech, AFFS, Payroll, Marketing etc, global Accounting OpEx teams in all geographies, and partner with tax, governance and compliance, treasury, finance, on a regular basis. This role will also have the ability to influence the tech teams to prioritize dedicated resources for automation, and the tech designs as these automations are developed. This means high visibility with leadership in the business and accounting on the continued velocity of solving unique problems that mostly stem from Amazon’s constantly changing environment and upgrading historical systems that were not originally intended to handle such complex use cases/businesses.

Projects range in size from small to extra-large in size, with an average project life cycle spanning approximately six to nine months, and can have significant net new requirements based on the countries involved and/or because the functionality being built needs to span multiple technology stacks and countries. This role will be expected to make complicated risk-based judgements and influence many stakeholders to achieve alignment by demonstrating a deep understanding of Amazon's legal entity structure and operational processes, complex accounting concepts, and systems across the ordering, marketplace, inventory, payments and financial ledger platforms.

Key job responsibilities

As a FBI Program Manager, you will:

• Own and Manage: You’ll own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously.

• Automate: You’ll work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate.

• Support Expansion: You’ll support the expansion of Amazon business by ensuring implementation of controlled processes to keep Amazon’s financial statements materially correct.

• Consult: You’ll operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different stakeholder teams across Amazon.

• Make Decisions: You’ll be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion.

• Collaborate: You’ll collaborate with Amazonians of diverse backgrounds

Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.

About the team

We are the Integration (FBI) team within Amazon Accounting. As an FBI team, we are responsible for project management of the accounting workstream of business launches and strategic initiatives by representing and enforcing the interests of the Accounting team.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements

• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

• Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree, or CMA or CPA

• PMP

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $92,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.