Amazon's Global Payroll team is looking for a Senior Specialist – Payroll Ops to provide support for the evolving Payroll tools and systems.
The Sr FinOps Specialist, will be required to mitigate the daily operational challenges by ensuring controls and checks are in place and followed at the ground level. This person should have a sound understanding of US payroll concepts, combined with the knowledge of internal processes and systems (upstream/downstream), thereby ensuring 100% compliance and controllership. This role will also be required to collaborate with analysts and be equally accountable for managing operational activities. This person will ensure the quality bar remains high by delivering high quality work, and demanding it of others’ work and continue to self-critique own work to make sure the quality is the best it can be. This person should take a strategic approach and risks whenever necessary.

The individual in this role requires to drive and lead the initiatives within team for automation by partnering with various stakeholders like Payroll tech, Operational Excellence (OE), Business Analytics (BA), Payroll Processing, Employee receivables, Customer Experience teams (MyTime, PeopleSoft, Payroll Tech etc.) and our external payroll vendor ADP.

The Sr. FinOps Specialist – US Payroll, ATP works effectively with the cross functional teams. This person shall provide data anecdotes with concise analysis to recommend change to senior leadership and stake holders, also provide narratives to support business decisions. This person shall challenge the status quo and take calculated risk for business development and enhancement.


Key job responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Provide Project Support to end user on tools and systems
· Acts as a bridge between customers, team, and product partners
· Supports quality audits of internal documentation
· Facilitates focus groups with various roles and levels to create an engaging environment which fosters feedback and transparency with close loop communication by driving process improvement opportunities
· Ability to multi task and work well under pressure, to identify issues and work to resolve them in partnership with business leaders
· Demonstrated ability to perform well in a highly dynamic, rapidly changing environment
· Flexible, adaptable, proactive and self-motivated
· Ability to manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously and effectively and efficiently prioritize and meet deadlines.
· Provides guidance on training processes and systems to team members, and managers.