DESCRIPTION Amazon has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager to join our Finance and Business Integration team.
This position supports and can directly influence the launches of some of Amazon's newest global business initiatives in the consumer products, digital initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business. This leader will work closely with the global financial systems team, accounting operations teams, tax, treasury, and others and represent the accounting organization to various stakeholders. In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.
Key job responsibilities
Own and Manage: You'll own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously.
Automate: You'll work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate.
Support Expansion: You'll support the expansion of Amazon business by ensuring implementation of controlled processes to keep Amazon's financial statements materially correct.
Consult: You'll operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different stakeholder teams across Amazon.
Make Decisions: You'll be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion.
Collaborate: You'll collaborate with Amazonians of diverse backgrounds.
Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management and Finance Systems. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Culver City, CA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Portland, OR, USA | Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules
