6 Accounts Payable (AP) Manager - Project Kuiper, FinOps HQ2 Jobs in Arlington, VA
Amazon is Hiring an Accounts Payable (AP) Manager - Project Kuiper, FinOps HQ2 Near Arlington, VA
DESCRIPTION
We are Amazon’s Finance Operations organization and responsible for Amazon’s strategic vendor Payables. We are responsible for making on-time, accurate payments on behalf of the varying business channel. We are seeking an Accounts Payable (AP) Analyst that will work directly with our vendors, and finance teams to coordinate on time payments. They will own the relationship with the vendors and provide day to day support to enable timely payments. This position will lead a team and its efforts to dive deep into vendor payment data, drive process improvements, standardize processes, and eliminate root-cause defects within existing systems.
This role is based in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.
By working together on behalf of our vendors, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.
Primary responsibilities:
- Systemically intake, escalate, and triage vendor payments, contacts and issues and follow-through to resolution, including executive-level communication.
- Recognize escalation trends and identify underlying defects and root causes.
- Partner with and influence upstream and downstream teams
- Meet or exceed monthly Payment Accuracy goals
- Leverage data from numerous databases and internal tools (using Excel, or other data management systems) to perform reporting and analysis.
- Communicate directly with vendors to resolve invoice discrepancies and ensure timely and accurate payables.
- Work across Global time zones as needed.
Key job responsibilities
- Single point of contact for all vendor tasks associated with AP.
- Understand the end to end P2P process.
- Create SOP's and procedural documents.
- Report related key metrics on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
- Create and share root cause analysis & write documents for dive deep sessions.
- Escalate to senior leadership key issues that could impact on time payments.
- Deliver on multiple data requests and participate in process improvement workshops.
- Manage highly ambiguous situations and communicate effectively with multiple stake holders
NOTE: This job is an hybrid role (3 days a week in the office) and is non-negotiable.
A day in the life
The Accounts Payable Lead will assist in the development of P2P end to end payment structures for the varying businesses. They will lead projects, create processes/procedures and work with a Global presence.
About the team
This is a strategic team with highly skilled team members with high volumes, high ambiguity and high performance standards. The work location is in Arlington VA and team members are expected to work from office.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4 years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 4 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 4 years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 4 years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
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.
Job Summary
Full Time
Transportation
$57k-76k (estimate)
03/15/2024
05/14/2024
RANDALLSTOWN, MD
25 - 50
2018
$50M - $200M
Transportation
