Senior Accounting Analyst, Accounting

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Accounting Analyst with 5+ years of experience to support financial reporting and internal controls. The ideal candidate will have a CA or ICWAI qualification and a proven ability to drive process improvements while collaborating effectively with teams across multiple regions. This role emphasizes ownership, technical accounting skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with auditors and regulators.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of multi-national corporate or operational accounting experience.
• Strong desire to exceed expectations and drive positive change.
• Experience managing relationships with Big 4 auditors is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Conduct monthly/quarterly accounting and analysis.
• Prepare monthly accruals relating to business vertical.
• Evaluate accounting positions for new projects and write technical position papers.

Skills

Communication

Process Improvement

Interpersonal Skills

Risk Assessment

Education

CA or ICWAI qualification

Job description

At Amazon we're striving to be earth’s most customer-centric company. To get there, we need exceptionally bright, talented, and driven people. If you'd like join the world’s largest online retailer, this is your chance to have fun & make history! The Indian accounting organization supports accounting, financial reporting, internal control, inter company, and transfer pricing activities and also supports new business launches if any.
We are currently looking for candidates who are at the senior accounting Analyst level. Successful candidates for this position will have the equivalent of 5+ years of professional experience with financial accounting, reporting and internal control related responsibilities. This position will have responsibility for supporting all parts of our financial reporting process and will be expected to understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area. Technical accounting research and position paper writing will also be a requirement of this position.
This position is expected to have a strong sense of ownership, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business finance, operations accounting and IT groups.

Primary responsibilities Include:

- Monthly/Quarterly Accounting and analysis of a business vertical
- Preparation of monthly Accruals relating to business vertical.
- Driving efficiencies in business processes and guiding business teams on accounting areas.
- Evaluating accounting positions for New projects and writing technical position paper
- Partnering with the members of the global accounting organization to develop process improvement initiatives, and assist in the identification of standards for global consistency.
- Coordinating with auditors for timely closure of statutory audit and Tax audit.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of multi-national corporate or operational accounting experience.
- CA or ICWAI qualification is must.
- Strong communications skills and able to work effectively with teams in India and Seattle.
- The successful candidate will be a self-starter, a collaborative team-player, and an excellent communicator.
- Understanding of US GAAP, Indian Accounting Standards and communicate frequently with External Auditors and Regulators ensuring that Amazon India is compliant with all applicable laws, pronouncements and regulations.
- The candidate has a strong desire to exceed expectations and drive positive change across the organization and who has effective interpersonal skills.
- Candidate will also have strong written and oral communication skills, solid organizational, risk assessment and some information technology aptitude.
- Prior experience of working/managing relationship with Big 4 auditors will be an added advantage specially in Accounting Technical department

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency

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