Finance Transformation Manager, Amazon Leo Accounting PMO

Amazon • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

Leo Accounting PMO team has an immediate opening for a Finance Transformation Manager. This role supports and directly influences the launch of Amazon Leo product and programs across multiple verticals: satellite manufacturing, ground gateway terminals and customer terminals.

The program manager will work closely with the partner financial systems teams, accounting operations teams, tax, finance operations, and others on new initiatives to provide integrated accounting requirements to the Leo business teams. Successful candidates will have deep experience in Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, user acceptance testing and operational readiness responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading programs to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.

This position is expected to have a deep sense of ownership, strong passion in solving problems and delivering results, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.

Requirements

• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis

Nice To Haves

• CPA
• Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
• Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
• Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
• Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions

Responsibilities

• Review Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for accounting impact, provide feedback to business stakeholders, and coordinate issue triage across accounting stakeholders
• Build project plans for accounting workstreams, identifying goals, needs, and scope
• Draft Accounting Requirements Documents (ARDs) and related Journal Entry Mappings (JEMs) that meet customer needs
• Continuously identify/ track and mitigate program risks and issues and accelerate decision making
• Own accounting test planning and user acceptance testing
• Draft ad hoc issues based documents for leadership review
• Own leadership review and status update documents and meetings

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level