Amazon has an immediate opening for an Accounting Manager - Transformation to join our Finance and Business Integration team.

This candidate will work closely with accounting operations, business, finance, and technology teams to implement SAP for a manufacturing business unit. They will support and directly influence the launches of some of Amazon’s newest global business initiatives. In this role, the candidate will represent accounting while collaborating with business, finance, and technical to deliver world class financial 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
As an Accounting Manager, you will:

Define Strategies: You'll partner with accounting and technology teams to develop and own the implementation strategies for large, multi-year accounting automation programs.

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.


A day in the life
Your day begins with reviewing business requirements for upcoming projects and preparing documentation that clearly communicates accounting impacts and requirements to stakeholders. Throughout the day, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to align timelines and influence outcomes that optimize financial reporting. You might run a working session with technology teams to integrate accounting systems requirements, meet with business partners to explain GAAP implications of new transportation programs, or update leadership on project status and risk mitigation strategies.

About the team
We are the Finance and Business Integration (FBI) team within Amazon Accounting. As an FBI team, we lead Accounting programs that support the accounting workstreams related to foundational solutions for Amazon's Advanced Logistics network.