Senior Project Manager - Finance - Business Partnerships

$151,300 - $261,500/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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

About the position

The Finance Operations organization at Amazon plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth functioning of financial processes across the company. This includes providing procure-to-pay, revenue-to-receipt, real estate and facilities management, operations accounting, and operations excellence services. The primary goal is to maintain the highest level of controllership while minimizing costs. The team is responsible for the backbone systems and operational processes that ensure accurate and timely payments to suppliers, invoicing customers, and reporting financial results. In this role, you will be a vital member of the Finance Operations Business Partnership team, specifically supporting the Global Procure to Pay (P2P) processes. The focus of the team is to identify and eliminate defects within the P2P process that affect customers, vendors, and sellers. You will work closely with various teams to advocate for improvements through technology, defining, designing, and prioritizing enhancements in the ordering, fulfillment, payment, and dispute resolution processes. This position requires a keen ability to diagnose current processes and metrics, identify opportunities for improvement, and collaborate with business partners to enhance tools and systems. As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead initiatives aimed at improving the quality and accuracy of data used by Finance Operations to pay suppliers. You will partner with upstream business and technical teams to drive program objectives, manage implementation activities, and develop processes and documentation for program rollout and ongoing support. Your role will also involve designing scalable processes and procedures that can adapt to the business's growth, defining key performance indicators, and collaborating with global system and business owners to ensure process excellence. Negotiating efficient processes and policies across partner teams will be essential to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects, while also identifying key opportunities for improvement across various interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Drive program objectives by providing program management to define project plans and manage implementation activities.
• Design processes and procedures that scale with the business's growth in volume, complexity, and global geographic dispersion.
• Develop metrics and service level agreements for core programs and processes, and track delivery against program objectives.
• Collaborate and build relationships with system and business owners globally to ensure process excellence and the highest degree of controllership.
• Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects.
• Work cross-organizationally and functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and develop and implement plans to capitalize on those opportunities.

Requirements

• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics, or business, or a Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of quantitative role experience (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance).
• 6+ years of experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.

Nice-to-haves

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause, and creating/implementing an escalation plan.
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business.
• MBA or CPA.
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits packages.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation packages.