Accounting Manager, Vendor Funding, Amazon Accounting

$85,900 - $179,500/Yr

Amazon - Arlington, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Arlington, VA

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Accounting Manager position at Amazon is designed for financial accounting professionals who are eager to take ownership of their career and contribute to a customer-centric environment. This role involves supporting various aspects of the accounting and reporting process, ensuring effective internal controls, and leading accounting tasks and projects. The position emphasizes collaboration with finance and business partners, continuous learning, and process improvement within the accounting department.

Responsibilities

• Supporting various aspects of our accounting and reporting process.
• End-to-end process ownership to support finance and business partners.
• Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.
• Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month.
• Escalating risks and issues as necessary to leadership.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Ability to identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization.
• Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects.
• Enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.
• Research, conclude and memorialize technical accounting position papers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

Nice-to-haves

• CPA
• Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
• Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
• Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
• Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions

Benefits

• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Full range of medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other forms of compensation