Amazon India | Functional App Analyst, AFFS Accounting Onboarding

Responsibilities

• Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.
• Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority.
• This is an exciting opportunity to join fast-paced businesses at Amazon.
• The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to support financial systems and architecture.
• The successful candidate will be comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and demonstrate strong leadership skills.
• The candidate must have superior attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• The role offers significant opportunities for rapid growth and is a great place to learn about various businesses at Amazon.
• Work very closely with the technical teams across Amazon's lines of businesses to come up with innovative solutions that will accelerate the adoption of technology used for Financial Reporting and reconciliation.
• Work independently to manage projects and support Amazon's global businesses and development teams in the design and implementation of accounting systems.
• Provide project management update within and across business units to transition new processes and/or permanent solutions to support the Amazon accounting team.
• Coordinate with the global accounting teams to establish and maintain strong communication channels.
• Identify, implement, and adhere to best practices across all new project launches.
• Supporting in User Acceptance Testing (UATs) in close co-ordination with business and accounting teams.
• Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner.
• Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period of time.
• Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives.
• Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.
• Drive process improvements required to enhance controls.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to come up with optimal solutions for accounting automation.
• Work on code review and config review process by following the guidelines.
• Participate in UAT and guide internal customers with troubleshooting.
• Work on deployments to production after acquiring UAT sign-off from stakeholders.
• Help customers author and release accounting configurations using home grown business configuration management solutions.
• Offering and receiving coaching, support, and guidance to the team.
• Measuring and monitoring of metrics for new business initiatives.

Requirements

• Must have knowledge of an application’s functionality.
• Prioritization, Resource Planning and Stakeholder Management.
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• 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