Senior Accounting Analyst, Accounting

Amazon Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Accounting Analyst to support financial reporting, internal controls, and cross‑functional process improvements across the accounting function. The role requires 5+ years of experience in financial accounting, KPI analysis, and technical accounting research.

You will collaborate with global accounting, business finance, operations, and IT to drive efficiency and timely audits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or analytical field experience
• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 4+ years applying KPIs to analyses
• 4+ years creating process improvements with automation and analysis
• 4+ years identifying and leading opportunities to improve finance tools and processes
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business (or BA + 5+ years in quantitative role)

Responsibilities

• Monthly/Quarterly accounting and analysis of a business vertical
• Preparation of monthly accruals for the business vertical
• Drive efficiencies in business processes and guide teams on accounting areas
• Evaluate accounting positions for new projects and write technical position papers
• Partner with global accounting to develop process improvements and set standards
• Coordinate with auditors for timely statutory and tax audit closures

Skills

Tax/Finance analysis

Accounts Receivable/Payable

KPI analysis

Process automation

Finance tools improvement

Quantitative analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/statistics/business

MBA

CPA

Tools

Tableau

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Lawson

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

• 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

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ 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 quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

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
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

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