DESCRIPTION Amazon has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager to join our Accounting Technology Group. 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 the ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements, and prioritize.
As a Senior Program Manager within the Accounting Technology Group, you will:
* Impact and Influence Accounting Regulatory and Compliance Programs: You will play a pivotal role in shaping and influencing accounting regulatory and compliance programs, ensuring adherence to standards and regulations.
* Accelerate Accounting Close and Corporate Reporting Processes: You will spearhead initiatives aimed at accelerating the accounting close and corporate reporting processes, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
You will also:
* 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 the 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 | Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules
- Bachelor's degree, or Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
