Stores Leasing & Financing Accounting Leader

Amazon Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s Stores business seeks a seasoned Principal Accounting Manager to own end-to-end accounting for leasing and financing activities across the Stores network, ensuring tight controllership, system design, and cross-functional partnership.

You will collaborate with Treasury, Tax, Legal, FP&A, and Tech to implement new accounting frameworks and lead monthly close, memos, and financial disclosures. A leadership track record in finance and strong analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end accounting lifecycle for Stores CapEx, infrastructure, and leasing financing transactions.
• Assess the accounting for new business events, transactions, and structures across ASC 842, ASC 815, and ASC 360 and determine the appropriate treatment.
• Lead the implementation of accounting structures for new and evolving lease structures across the Stores network (real estate, fleet, and equipment).
• Drive the design and execution of accounting processes in Amazon systems to support lease and financing origination, modification, and termination workflows.
• Develop and maintain lease and financing accounting models, including present value calculations, classification assessments, and ongoing measurement under ASC 842.
• Partner with Treasury, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Finance, Business, and Tech teams to evaluate new financing structures and provide accounting guidance on proposed transactions.
• Set and enforce a high controllership bar: design, implement, and maintain SOX-compliant internal controls over leasing and financing processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and disclosures, with full audit-readiness.
• Prepare and review technical accounting memos for complex lease/financing arrangements, including sale-leaseback, variable lease payments, embedded lease assessments, embedded derivatives, and held-for-sale conclusions.
• Own monthly close activities for the leasing and financing portfolio, including journal entries, flux analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial statement disclosures.
• Lead cross-functional projects to stand up new leasing and financing programs, coordinating requirements across accounting, systems, operations, and business teams.
• Identify and drive process improvement and automation opportunities to scale leasing and financing operations and enhance the control environment.

Skills

Finance expertise

Accounting leadership

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics

Job description

Amazon’s Stores business seeks a seasoned Principal Accounting Manager to own end-to-end accounting for leasing and financing activities across the Stores network, ensuring tight controllership, system design, and cross-functional partnership.

You will collaborate with Treasury, Tax, Legal, FP&A, and Tech to implement new accounting frameworks and lead monthly close, memos, and financial disclosures. A leadership track record in finance and strong analytical skills are essential.