Overview

Amazon offers employees a competitive remuneration package, including participation in the company stock plan as applicable. We also look after our people with benefits, such as subsidized private health insurance, superannuation and paid parental leave options, amongst others.

Key Job Responsibilities:

  • Leading annual financial statement preparation and audits across the region
  • Reviewing local GAAP financial reporting close
  • Supporting business expansion across the region, ensuring that all statutory requirements are identified and supported
  • Business partnering with other Amazon teams, including FP&A, Tax, Transfer Pricing, Public Relations and Business and Corporate Legal
  • Demonstrating strong technical accounting acumen to be able to conclude on accounting treatment of new product launches, projects and transactions
  • Collaborating with global Accounting teams to identify, develop and implement best practices that can be used globally
  • Identifying, articulating and communicating project and accounting operation risks to leadership, along with clear recommendations for resolution or mitigation

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 3+ years of controls/audit/compliance/SOX roles experience
  • 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
  • CPA
  • Experience managing financial statement audits; or preparing external facing financial statements

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
  • Experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment
  • Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions
  • Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
  • Experience with Oracle, Essbase, TM1 and similar tools
  • Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one.