What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Transformation Manager, Amazon Leo Accounting PMO position at Amazon?
Description
Leo Accounting PMO team has an immediate opening for a Finance Transformation Manager. This role supports and directly influences the launch of Amazon Leo product and programs across multiple verticals: satellite manufacturing, ground gateway terminals and customer terminals.
The program manager will work closely with the partner financial systems teams, accounting operations teams, tax, finance operations, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the Leo business teams. Successful candidates will have deep experience in Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, user acceptance testing and operational readiness responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading programs to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.
This position is expected to have a deep sense of ownership, strong passion in solving problems and delivering results, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.
Basic Qualifications
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Culver City - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, MA, Boston - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, OR, Portland - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville - 85,900.00 - 146,900.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A10374581
Leo Accounting PMO team has an immediate opening for a Finance Transformation Manager. This role supports and directly influences the launch of Amazon Leo product and programs across multiple verticals: satellite manufacturing, ground gateway terminals and customer terminals.
The program manager will work closely with the partner financial systems teams, accounting operations teams, tax, finance operations, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the Leo business teams. Successful candidates will have deep experience in Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, user acceptance testing and operational readiness responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading programs to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.
This position is expected to have a deep sense of ownership, strong passion in solving problems and delivering results, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.
Key job responsibilities
- Review Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for accounting impact, provide feedback to business stakeholders, and coordinate issue triage across accounting stakeholders
- Build project plans for accounting workstreams, identifying goals, needs, and scope
- Draft Accounting Requirements Documents (ARDs) and related Journal Entry Mappings (JEMs) that meet customer needs
- Continuously identify/ track and mitigate program risks and issues and accelerate decision making
- Own accounting test planning and user acceptance testing
- Draft ad hoc issues based documents for leadership review
- Own leadership review and status update documents and meetings
- Plan and prioritize daily and near term activities
- Join weekly team scrum to discuss past/current activities and potential blockers
- 1:1 with manager to deep dive program risks
- 1:1 with key business stakeholder to unblock a project workstream
- Meet with business stakeholders to review end to end process and detailed accounting use-cases while gathering feedback to drive clarity for solution design
- Work on Journal Entry Mappings file ahead of accounting stakeholder review next week
- Prep for the Friday weekly leadership status meeting
- Respond to emails, wrap up day and set upcoming priorities
In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- 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
- Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Culver City - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, MA, Boston - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, OR, Portland - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville - 85,900.00 - 146,900.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A10374581