Amazon India | Sr. Manager Payroll, Global Payroll

Responsibilities

• We’ll give you the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by working on and initiating projects in a fast-paced environment and ultimately delivering results.
• By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.
• Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders
• The role is a fantastic opportunity for a leader, who wants to raise the bar for the payroll team and set the team up for success.
• The successful candidate will lead one of the sub-regional Payroll teams located in Hyderabad, Pune.
• This position will also act as an escalation point in resolving complex outstanding issues with internal and external business partners.
• The role requires a candidate with ability to manage and improve the payroll operations (performance metrics, internal controls, compliance, automation…) as well as to manage regional projects.
• Contributes to the strategic direction of the company based on internal and industry knowledge.
• Responsible for developing and communicating team or department vision and goals.
• Build and monitor a consolidated Payroll Operations annual operating plan to forecast headcount needs with detailed analysis of budget to actual results on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Partner with external stakeholders HR, HRS, Accounting, Treasury (external to Payroll department).
• Partner with internal stakeholders Compliance, Controllership, Payroll Transformation, Payroll Academy.
• Responsible to develop and implement systems to support rapid growth.
• Performs autonomously and initiate and manages complex, departmental and/or cross- company work.
• Build scalable processes to recruit, train and develop business professionals to support business expansion.
• Lead performance review processes with VPs, Directors and senior leaders across functions in the region.
• Responsible for 70+ team members including second line managers, first line managers and individual contributors.
• Build, inspire and motivate the teams to raise the bar.
• Liaise with key stakeholders for procedural changes.
• Maintain relationship with key internal and external partners.
• Leads with data and develops audit mechanisms to stay close to the data.
• Leading and developing a team, including: hiring, training and employee development; managing group workload and establishing priorities; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed; managing annual performance, targets; creating and monitoring appropriate performance metrics; succession planning; resource planning.
• Coaching junior first time people managers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Strong analytical skills to identify potential impact and implications of issues and takes appropriate action to avoid future recurrences.
• 7+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience
• 8+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience
• 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 8+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 8+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
• 5+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) 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