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Amazon Controller, Enterprise Risk Management - Financial Controls in New York, New York
Description
Passionate about ensuring financial statement accuracy? Ready to take on the responsibility for one or two networks as a Controller? Want to be part of a fun team that runs Internal Controls and drives process improvements? If you answered yes, we should talk!
We are a small but mighty team in Amazon Operations overseeing Compliance/Risk for six networks. What does Operations mean, you ask?
Ever wonder how your Amazon packages get to your doorstep? Now you can learn by being part of the Finance team supporting these operations. Two of our networks are AMZL and NASC.
AMZL is Amazon's "Last Mile" delivery service, responsible for delivering packages to households and businesses across the planet. Part of "Middle Mile", NASC is a segment of the Amazon owned and operated shipping network that includes hundreds of warehouses and thousands of vans, long-haul trucks and aircraft. Every day several million packages from multiple fulfillment centers across the US and Canada arrive in one of the 100 sort centers where they are sorted for delivery, which improves truck utilization and reduces transportation costs.
This role will support our Global Controls, Compliance, and Risk Management team. You will be pivotal to the team's success, as you partner to build and create global Controls frameworks. This role will partner with multiple stakeholders within both, finance and the business teams, to provide Controls guidance and Compliance insights to Worldwide operations. Opportunities await to grow your career as you engage on one of the many facets of this world-class delivery service. Once you have mastered the world of Compliance, endless opportunities exist to rotate to other functional areas or roles across Amazon's portfolio of businesses.
Key job responsibilities
Effectively influences business partners, provides sound and thoughtful recommendations, and manages competing priorities in a quickly changing environment. The candidate should demonstrate amazing analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguity, and strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with worldwide operations leadership is common.
Perform monthly and quarterly reviews of the fixed asset ledger to check for completeness of data, correct entries, etc. and perform corrective actions whenever necessary.
Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon. These decisions can have global impact.
Collects and analyzes quantitative data to develop relevant reports that drive cost reductions.
Identifies opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
Design and build processes that improve the level of automation and scalability of the aforementioned activities that can be replicated.
A day in the life
A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by helping to build scalable, robust, dependable and systemic solutions through data-driven decision making.
Partnerships:
Global Consumer Controllership team
AMZL Engineering and Launch teams
Capex Controllership team
Accounting, Procurements, and IT
About the team
This role will support Controls lead Capex Controllership for one of our operations networks, supporting global Launch and Engineering teams. This role will help to A) influence and shape global control mechanisms and B) partner with execution teams on Controls insights.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
Preferred Qualifications
MBA, or CPA
Experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment
2+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.