Audit Manager - AWS Supply Chain Finance, Compliance and Review Program (CARP)

Description

Join AWS Supply Chain Finance as an Audit Manager and lead our Compliance and Review Program, ensuring financial integrity across a global organization that powers AWS computing capacity. You'll conduct comprehensive financial audits and risk assessments while supporting controllership initiatives that directly impact how we deliver cloud infrastructure to customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
Audit Execution & Compliance
- Conduct 8-12 financial audits annually across AWS Supply Chain operations
- Execute contract compliance reviews for vendor agreements valued at $50M annually
- Manage 3-5 concurrent audit engagements with third-party consultants
- Complete audit cycles within one or two quarter timeframe depending on audit scope and complexity from planning through reporting

Risk Management & Control Design
- Perform quarterly risk assessments across AWS Supply Chain processes
- Identify and document control gaps, delivering actionable recommendations per audit
- Design and implement control enhancements that reduce compliance exceptions/ defects by 20%
- Analyze vendor records, reports, and operating practices to ensure adherence to finance controls

Stakeholder Partnership & Reporting
- Present audit findings and recommendations to Director level stakeholders monthly
- Partner with 5-7 AWS Supply Chain functional leads globally to develop controllership strategies
- Deliver written audit reports within 20 business days of fieldwork completion
- Translate complex operational and technical issues into executive-ready business narratives

Process Improvement
- Drive remediation processes that address root causes of control failures that eliminates cost leakage in the future.
- Implement process improvements that increase audit efficiency
- Reduce recurring audit findings by 20% year over year through enhanced control design

About the team
The Compliance and Review Program (CARP) is an AWS CFO-sponsored program within AWS Supply Chain Finance that performs internal audits of AWS infrastructure suppliers. Our audit scope spans multiple supplier spend verticals, including server, networking, power and cooling, data center construction, utilities, rent, and security.

CARP was established in Q1 2024 to strengthen financial controls and ensure compliance across AWS's infrastructure supply chain. Our team works directly with our integrators, OEM suppliers, strategic inventory suppliers, and logistics service providers to identify cost recovery opportunities, validate billing accuracy, and drive corrective actions that deliver measurable financial impact. Please see our wiki at team's wiki at: https://w.amazon.com/bin/view/AIS-SC_CARP/

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3 years of experience in finance, accounting, supply chain or a related analytical field, with demonstrated experience in at least one of the following: designing and implementing internal controls, performing audits of financial reporting processes, or leading risk assessments in a corporate environment.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or CFA and 4 years of SOX and/or Audit engagements experience

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with SQL and Excel
- Knowledge of process improvement, ideally including Lean, Kaizen and Six Sigma
- 3 years of experience in program and audit scope definition, requirements development, and using data and metrics to identify and drive process improvements
- Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
- 3 years of experience in global operations, manufacturing, supply chain, or logistics
- Proficiency in data analysis tools (ETL, Alteryx Designer, Excel - advanced functions)

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