DESCRIPTION
Amazon is a fast-paced, dynamic, high-tech company based in Seattle. Amazon's accounting team is searching for accounting professionals who consistently exceed expectations, who thrive in a challenging workplace, and who can actively contribute to our talented team.
Amazon China seeks an experienced Senior Accounting Analyst to drive and participate in certain accounting activities in APAC Accounting team. This position will be responsible for proper and accurate accounting across AWS and Retail business operations in the region. This team member is expected to actively and frequently engage with various stakeholders internally and externally across different geographies and time zones.
This position will also partner with the members of the global accounting organization to develop team-wide goals, process improvement initiatives, and assist in the identification of standards for global consistency. This role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to senior leadership across geographies and time zones.
Responsibilities include:
1) Business partnership for new business launch activities and expansions;
2) Manage proper accounting of business activities and support month-end closing;
3) Support statutory audits, tax audits & SOX compliance;
4) Work with local and global team to define the future process, document accounting requirement and participate in testing;
5) Raise accounting issues and coordinate with local and global team to drive consistency;
6) Drive continuous improvement and identify, design and implement scalable processes. Develop and implement best practice that can be used globally.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
- 4+ years of controls/audit/compliance/SOX roles 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
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- Fluent in business English, both verbal and written
- Must be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and in a fast-paced company
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
- 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)
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