Amazon India | Senior Accounting Analyst, Accounting

Responsibilities

• Successful candidates for this position will have the equivalent of 5+ years of professional experience with financial accounting, reporting and internal control related responsibilities.
• This position will have responsibility for supporting all parts of our financial reporting process and will be expected to understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area.
• Technical accounting research and position paper writing will also be a requirement of this position.
• This position is expected to have a strong sense of ownership, ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business finance, operations accounting and IT groups.
• Preparation of monthly Accruals relating to business vertical.
• Driving efficiencies in business processes and guiding business teams on accounting areas.
• Evaluating accounting positions for New projects and writing technical position paper.
• Partnering with the members of the global accounting organization to develop process improvement initiatives, and assist in the identification of standards for global consistency.
• Coordinating with auditors for timely closure of statutory audit and Tax audit.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience.
• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience.
• 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).
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence.
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer.
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

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