Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager to support Seller Services Finance, Global Stores and Business Integration team. This position would also manage few Accounting

This role supports the Amazon Third Party Marketplace organization. The Amazon Marketplace lists items on the Amazon website for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), Merchant Fulfillment Network (MFN), and Multi-Channel Fulfillment. These programs provide great opportunities for learning all about Amazon’s consumer world as they span a multitude of areas of tax, accounting and the broader finance community given their cross-border nature that typically involve multiple geographies, dual currencies, and stakeholders from around the globe.

This role also wields the ability to influence the tech teams that have recurring dedicated resources for automation, as you are in direct control of what automation efforts get prioritized, working with stakeholders to constantly keep a pulse on new and existing issues and keeping an up-to-date priority list. This means high visibility with leadership in the business and accounting on the continued velocity of solving unique problems that mostly stem from Amazon’s constantly changing environment and upgrading historical systems that were not originally intended to handle such complex use cases/businesses.

This position supports and can directly influence the launches of some of Amazon’s newest global business initiatives. This leader will work closely with the global financial systems team, accounting operations teams, tax, treasury, and others and represent the accounting organization to various stakeholders. 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


Key job responsibilities
As a Finance Senior Program Manager, you will:
• Own and Manage: You’ll own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Automate: You’ll work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate.
• Support Expansion: You’ll support the expansion of Amazon business by ensuring implementation of controlled processes to keep Amazon’s financial statements materially correct.
• Consult: You’ll operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different stakeholder teams across Amazon.
• Make Decisions: You’ll be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion.
• Collaborate: You’ll collaborate with Amazonians of diverse backgrounds.
•Leading, coaching and developing a team of the financial analysts, staff accountants, team leads and managers across various accounting processes to ensure consistent delivery of the high-quality work by the team. This also includes goal setting, performance review management of the team, identifying improvement/ training plans and other related activities.
• Demonstrate a proficient level of professional skill and knowledge in accounting and apply this in-depth knowledge, principles and systems design to recognize complex and unique issues and develop resolution and/or consistently consult with leadership in order to achieve resolution.


A day in the life
Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position

About the team
Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager to support Seller Services Finance, Global Stores and Business Integration team. This position would also manage few Accounting

This role supports the Amazon Third Party Marketplace organization. The Amazon Marketplace lists items on the Amazon website for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), Merchant Fulfillment Network (MFN), and Multi-Channel Fulfillment. These programs provide great opportunities for learning all about Amazon’s consumer world as they span a multitude of areas of tax, accounting and the broader finance community given their cross-border nature that typically involve multiple geographies, dual currencies, and stakeholders from around the globe.