Senior Accounting Analyst, Accounting

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 to 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.

We are currently looking for candidates at the senior accounting analyst level. Successful candidates will have the equivalent of 5+ years of professional experience with financial accounting, reporting, and internal control responsibilities. This position will support 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 required.

This position is expected to have a strong sense of ownership, the 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 papers
• 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 accounts payable experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• 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
• 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
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• 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)

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