Amazon seeks a highly motivated finance professional to play a lead role in Operations Finance supporting the Global Realty (GR) real estate team.
GR is responsible for acquisition and management of real estate for the Amazon Operations Network. This is a great opportunity to support GR in a role with high impact and visibility to business-critical processes that will require interactions with Directors and Vice Presidents (VPs) across Operations and Finance.
Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities : they are a self-starter, have a strong sense of ownership, collaborate with and influence business partners, support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment, and think long-term.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop partnerships across Operations and use data to influence a high degree of compliance and controllership with the business
- Gather, analyze, and manage quantitative data to drive process improvements and enhance controls across the GR organization
- Deliver controllership through risk assessment and self inspection audits on key spend processes
- Manage competing priorities to complete both ad-hoc and strategic projects
- Seek opportunities to resolve defects and reduce cost-to-serve
- Improve, scale, and simplify finance tools across teams and organizations
- Communicate financial insights (both written and verbal) in a clear and concise manner. Adapt communication based on intended audience to clearly articulate complex financial considerations.
- Promote a positive and collaborative culture.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA, or CPA
- 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)
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results