Amazon - Specialist - Financial Operations/Accounts Payable (5-10 yrs)

External job description:

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

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

This is an exciting role in Finance Operations team in Hyderabad, India

About the role:

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

Responsibilities will include:

- Act as key SME on the assigned process -Account Payable/Finance operations

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

- Working actively and accurately on an independent basis; giving 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.

- Handling meetings and closing the agreed action items timely.

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

Other requirements:

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

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

- Interacting with Corporate & Finance teams while working on the same vendor account and agreeing on priorities, business decisions, objectives and communication

About you:

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 relationships with the vendors. The ideal candidate should have action-driven personality and motivation to proactively address any issues on vendor's account 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:

- 5+ 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 in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL

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