Amazon India | FinOps Specialist AP, Robotics

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will ensures that our financial operations are prepared for our continued expansion and reports into Manager, Global FinOps AP.
• FinOps Specialist is responsible for smooth operations of Vendor Payables operations at Pune, which includes Vendor-setup, Inventory, Non-Inventory and Other Vendor Payables activities.
• This position will be responsible for a process within Accounts Payable Operations including: hiring, training, and employee development; managing group workload and establishing priorities; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed; managing annual performance targets and operating budget; creating and monitoring appropriate performance metrics.
• This position will also act as an escalation point in resolving complex outstanding issues with internal and external business partners.
• Drive development and expansion of systems and processes required to execute on-time payments to Vendors.
• Owns defining / adhering to policies related to AP and drive consistency with entities globally.
• Build and monitor performance metrics, with principal focus on ensuring on-time payments, cost out initiatives and estimating future headcount growth by country.
• Drive the expansion of self-service functionality in order to improve vendor experience and reduce manual processes.
• Maintain weekly and monthly communications and metrics reporting with Director and VP level business partners in Digital business and finance teams.
• Developing, modifying and maintaining the operational and design effectiveness of internal controls.
• Lead cross functional systems and process improvement initiatives.
• Solving complex customer/vendor issues and proactively heading off negative service trends.
• Partnering with Internal Audit

Requirements

• Understanding and correctly utilizing resources provided by internal systems, departments, policies, and procedures.
• Knowledge & Skills/ Business Acumen/ Education & Experience
• Good Customer focus (both Internal / External).
• Good interpersonal skills — including written and oral communication skills.
• Expertise in Six Sigma defect reduction techniques (DMAIC, etc.)
• Experience using Oracle Financial Applications (Preferred)
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
• 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL

Amazon India

Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookshop and is today one of the world's largest companies, spanning online retail, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), digital media, devices and advertising. It is headquartered in Seattle and listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Amazon launched its Indian marketplace, Amazon.in, in 2013, and its businesses in India now include the marketplace, Amazon Pay, Amazon Business, Prime Video and AWS, which runs two Indian cloud regions — Mumbai (2016) and Hyderabad (2022). Its Hyderabad campus, opened in 2019, was at the time Amazon's largest campus building anywhere in the world.

Beyond serving Indian customers, Amazon's India offices handle a significant share of the company's global finance work: finance operations (accounts payable, receivables and payments), controllership and accounting, worldwide direct and indirect tax reporting, financial planning and business finance for its retail, AWS and payments businesses, and audit, risk and compliance programmes. These roles suit CA, CMA, CPA, ACCA and MBA (Finance) profiles as well as B.Com and M.Com graduates.

• Industry: E-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital payments and logistics
• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA (parent: Amazon.com, Inc.); India operations based in Bengaluru
• In India: Corporate offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune, with fulfilment and delivery centres across India