Amazon – Financial Analyst/Program Manager – CPA

Amazon; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company is seeking a Financial Analyst to join their Accounts Payable team in Hyderabad, India. The role involves leading GST-related projects, analyzing Accounts Payable processes, and ensuring compliance. Candidates should have over 6 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in finance or engineering. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth and technological enhancements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payable experience.
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• 6+ years of identifying and executing opportunities to improve financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead GST-related projects for India.
• Analyze and optimize Accounts Payable processes.
• Ensure compliance with evolving GST regulations.
• Drive technological and operational enhancements.
• Manage program accountability to deliver expected targets.

Skills

Financial analysis

GST compliance

Project management

Process optimization

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business

Six Sigma Black Belt

Job description

Financial Analyst

Amazon is hiring for Accounts Payable team for APAC region as a Financial Analyst and Program Manager to support the Retail, Digital and Corporate payee processes. Amazon businesses are growing and expanding at a rapid pace resulting in a dynamic work environment with many opportunities.

This position is the front line of our program driving global improvements and initiatives within Accounts Payable FinOps Services procure to pay processes; managing projects and collaborating with system and business owners globally to drive end-to-end improvements and visibility to payments process. An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding work environment is critical to this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead GST-related projects for India, focusing on implementations planned for 2025 and 2026.
• Analyze and optimize Accounts Payable processes in alignment with GST requirements.
• Ensure compliance with evolving GST regulations and other financial laws in the APAC region.
• Drive technological and operational enhancements across APAC and India regions.
• Provide expert analysis and recommendations on GST impact on AP processes.
• Oversee change management and training programs related to new GST implementations.
• Manage program accountability to deliver on expected targets (quality, compliance, cost, return on investment).
• Develop business requirements for system improvements to support Amazon’s growth and strategic business design.
• Aggregate information to generate compelling stories representing the user experience to influence and drive organizational change.
• Maintain end to end responsibility of key AP process(es) and work with technology teams to understand, measure and improve support systems.

A Day in the Life

• Maintain project plans, assigning and tracking tasks to respective teams.
• Locate and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports.
• Actively seek opportunities to increase agility by identifying future needs to evolve systems, processes, services and solutions to support strategic growth and development.
• Support offshore transactional teams with root cause identification, identifying appropriate remediation and execute on a project plan with appropriate level of urgency.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience.
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience.
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience.
• 6+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of Accounts Payable (AP) experience.
• Six Sigma Black Belt.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience.
• MBA, or CPA.