Accounting Manager, AWS Supply Chain Accounting
About The Position
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking individuals with accounting experience and entrepreneurial aptitude to accelerate decision-making and management of the business and accounting functions. The AWS Supply Chain Accounting team is looking for analytical individuals with a passion for analytics, accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. This role offers a collaborative, team-driven environment that encourages learning, curiosity, and a bias for action. The position will contribute to optimizing AWS’s supply chain, capturing operational benefits in terms of continuity of supply and cost efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field, or Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
Nice To Haves
- CPA
- Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 5+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- 4+ years of transactional accounting field experience
Responsibilities
- Supporting various aspects of our accounting and reporting process.
- End-to-end process ownership to support finance and business partners.
- Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects.
- Execute judgments to keep business and accounting projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month.
- Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.
- Escalating risks and issues as necessary to leadership.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Ability to identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization.
- Enhance partnerships between accounting and business, finance, tax, trade compliance and IT groups.
- Research, conclude and memorialize technical accounting position papers.
Benefits
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
