Financial Analyst I, Corp Accounts Payable

Amazon is looking for driven Finance Operations Specialist to become major contributors to the fast-paced world of Global Accounts Payable. We will give you the opportunity to make a difference in a high growth environment where your ability to identify, communicate and drive changes will be key. You will own a critical reporting activity and manage direct relationships with multiple global stakeholders to coordinate problem solving activities ensuring timely payments to vendors.

We are looking for people with good communication and analytical skills as well as a passion for process improvement and problem solving. If you are motivated to dive into details, take ownership and work in a fast-paced environment we have the career you're looking for!

Key job responsibilities

The successful candidate will be a member of Global Finance Operations and will be responsible for key metrics reporting and improvement.

Responsibilities include:

Act as key SME in your assigned Account Payable areas

Analyzing metrics relating to operational performance and effectively presenting data to leadership and internal teams

Working actively and accurately on an independent basis; ensuring great attention to detail and displaying the initiative to quickly identify and resolve variances, failures and discrepancies

Interacting with Operations, Business Partnering & Finance teams on root cause analysis, updating SOP?s, communication and backward planning.

Work with global stakeholders to identify and drive improvement opportunities to success. This would include driving a culture of continuous improvement through quality initiatives like Lean & Six Sigma.

Publish accurate and timely monthly/bi-annual Payment Practice reports ensuring alignment with regulatory guidelines

Ability to create process and business requirements to enable tech solutions for automated reporting

Partner with AP-Analytics in maintaining and improving dashboards by ensuring timely addition of new entities

Review Payment Practice regulations, including updating reporting logic and rules for any law amendments by working with legal point of contacts

Complete self-inspection of data, which may require sampling invoices for all/new ingestion sources.

Respond to audit questions from CSI/FORI relating to reporting.

A day in the life

The ideal candidate will be experienced in finance role with an understanding of finance operations and will have experience in relationship management. He/she will have problem solving skills with the focus on improving the processes and strengthening the payment practices. The ideal candidate should have action-driven personality and motivation to proactively address any issues and identify areas for improvement. Additional traits we are looking for are a strong desire to exceed expectations, effective interpersonal skills; including persuasive written and oral communication, solid organizational skills and ability to assess and manage risk.

Basic Qualifications

6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills

Experience using data to influence business decisions

Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis

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