Senior Accounting Analyst

Amazon; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global e-commerce company is seeking a Senior Accounting Analyst in Riyadh. The successful candidate will analyze financial performance and improve business processes. Key qualifications include over 5 years in financial accounting, strong skills in SQL, and a relevant bachelor's degree. This role is crucial for ensuring compliance and driving efficiency in financial operations within the organization. Ideal candidates will have experience with automation and large-scale data handling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in financial accounting, reporting, and internal control.
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 4+ years in Accounts Receivable or Account Payable.

Responsibilities

• Monthly/Quarterly accounting and analysis of a business vertical.
• Preparation of monthly accruals related to business vertical.
• Driving efficiencies in business processes and guiding business teams.

Skills

Tax expertise

Financial analysis

Process automation

SQL for data mining

KPI application

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business

Six Sigma Black Belt

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Oracle

Job description

Overview

At Amazon we're striving to be earth’s most customer‑centric company. To get there, we need exceptionally bright, talented, and driven people. 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 senior accounting Analyst level candidates with 5+ years of professional experience in financial accounting, reporting, and internal control.

Primary Responsibilities

• Monthly/Quarterly accounting and analysis of a business vertical
• Preparation of monthly accruals related 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 assisting 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 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 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)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.