Senior Financial Analyst, FOAA Payroll Accounting team
Job ID: 2699774 | Amazon Data Services India Private Limited
The successful candidate will ensure that accounting processes are run in a controlled environment, meeting and exceeding our customers’ expectations. The candidate will report into a Senior Manager. This role involves working with our central accounting, finance operation, and global financial teams to ensure we have a controlled accounting process for month-end accounting and reporting activities in alignment with our "Customer Obsession", “Deliver Results”, and “Insist on Highest Standard” philosophy.
The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for the smooth operations of the global accounting team in Bangalore, which includes closing the global books of accounts, posting journal entries, preparing global general ledger account reconciliations, reporting, and conducting reviews with the leadership team. The individual must ensure that finance processes operate at optimum capacity and partner with operations and accounting teams to achieve the annual operating plan.
The Finops Accounting team prepares, reviews, and reports on general ledger account and operational reconciliations. This individual will develop and maintain key financial and operational metrics, analyze and report monthly variance analysis, and provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis. Additionally, this individual will establish and embed principles of financial controls by measuring the quality of general ledger account reconciliations and creating dashboards and metrics to assess process quality and controls. This position will also be responsible for hiring and training priorities, ensuring compliance with existing policies and procedures.
The successful candidate should have a strong desire to innovate processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation on behalf of our customers.
Responsibilities include:
Accounting and Control:
- Own financial reporting and may teach others, e.g., own the delivery of complete month-end close of Accounts Payable accounting functions, reporting decks, reconciliations, etc.
- Provide support/direction for process or problem resolution.
- Ensure all processes operate efficiently and effectively.
- Identify and implement process improvements where required.
- Understand industry best practices and set up benchmarks for quality.
- Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required.
- Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.
- Manage department’s response to internal and external audit requirements and ensure compliance with Sox requirements for all geographies/activities.
- Manage complex accounting issues and implement process controls.
- Analyze complex datasets and provide business judgments.
Leadership and Management:
- Stakeholder management and building relationships: Make and keep commitments, seek opportunities to partner with customers, be optimistic, and anticipate needs.
- Protect our brand: Know and live the values.
- Strong systems background.
- Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required.
- Ability to work with remote teams in multiple geographies.
- Work with cross-functional systems and drive process improvement initiatives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of experience identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause, and creating/implementing an escalation plan
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