Senior Accounting Analyst, Accounting

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

Job summary

Amazon Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Accounting Analyst to support financial reporting, internal control design, and inter‑company activities. The role emphasizes ownership, process improvement, and collaboration with business finance, operations accounting, and IT teams.

The candidate will handle monthly/quarterly accounting, accruals, and technical position papers, with 5+ years in related accounting roles. Prior experience with major ERP and data tools is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business, or equivalent with 5+ years in a quantitative role.
• 5+ years in financial accounting, reporting and internal controls recommended.
• Experience with KPI driven analytics and process improvements.
• Proven ability to automate and standardize finance processes.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams including IT and operations.

Responsibilities

• Monthly/quarterly accounting and analysis for a business vertical.
• Prepare monthly accruals and ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Drive process efficiencies and guide business teams on accounting matters.
• Assess accounting positions for new projects and write technical papers.
• Coordinate with global accounting to standardize processes and controls.
• Liaise with auditors for statutory and tax audit closures.

Skills

Tax experience

Finance analytics

KPI analysis

Automation & process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Oracle/SAP

Job description

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.

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

• 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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Job ID: A10557314