Amazon.com has extensive vendor payment operations activities for our vendors across the Globe. The WW Finance operation at Hyderabad commenced in 2005 and has grown steadily in its size and scope into a dynamic and large team. The 3000+ member team at Hyderabad, Pune, Manila, Costa Rica, Bratislava and China handle WW Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll transactions and play a key role in smooth functioning of overall Amazon businesses. This position will mainly support both AP, AR, Tax and Accounting related processes for all major businesses of Amazon, which comprises of 150+ unique services. The amount of money that is managed by the function is over $500Billion per annum

Key job responsibilities
• Leading Black Belt (BB) projects and mentoring GBs/YBs/Kaizens to address key cross functional issues ranging from financial operations, fulfillment operations, and vendor management for global Amazon businesses
• Deliver Financial Savings through projects
• Design and implement mechanisms to improve Operational Excellence Culture
• Conducting YB and Kaizen Trainings
• Manage the documentation and status of all GB/BB/Lean projects
• Provide periodic project updates, including major successes/challenges, to senior management
• Managing and constantly improving the idea management (ideation to implementation) process
• Conduct VSMs and FMEAs to identify improvement opportunities as and when needed
• Able to handle TAX / VAT related process study and identify the gaps.

A day in the life
Driving discussions with Stakeholders on the process improvements
Mentoring operations on YB/ GB / BB projects
Conducting Data analysis
Drive VSMs
Conducting Lean Six Sigma Trainings
Conduct FMEA
Designing solutions and future state processes

About the team
FGBS ACES, established in 2011, is comprised of 59 process improvement experts (Black Belts, Master Black Belts, Lean experts and data specialists) whose core competencies include: Value stream mapping, Root Cause Analysis, Data Analysis, Process Design, light automations and Change Management. This global team spans nine countries and is structured along FinOps verticals (i.e., Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, and Payroll) and business channels (i.e., AWS, Advertising, Stores, Healthcare etc.). FGBS ACES provides support across all of FGBS and various Amazon businesses, with the exception of Fulfillment Operations, HR, and Customer Service. Our team is actively engaged in projects across a wide range of areas, including Advertising, AWS, Stores, Tax, Transportation, and Treasury. In the past, we have also worked in Devices, Studios, Video, and Fresh.