Amazon India
Amazon India | Staff Accountant, FAAS
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Job Highlights
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 as a Service (FAAS) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority.
- This position will support the Management in all aspects of financial accounting, reporting systems, procedures, and policies.
- This position will also play an important role in promoting systems/process development within department to ensure ongoing efficiency and control improvements.
- The successful candidate will have a strong desire in innovating processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Zeal towards Operational Excellence/Process improvement & simplifications.
- Advance level excel and knowledge of SQL is a must.
Experience of oracle/sap
- Must be a Certified Accountant with CA / ICWA/.
- Prior experience in Retail or Market Place or Financial Retail Services is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal skills — including written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent knowledge of financial controls and procedures, US GAAP knowledge would be plus.
- Knowledge of Six Sigma defect reduction techniques (Lean, etc) preferred.
- Knowledge & Skills/ Business Acumen/ Education & Experience
- Self motivated , enthusiastic
- 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
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
About the company
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.
