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Job Descriptions Amazon is seeking an experienced Financial Analyst to identify, create, develop, and integrate innovative solutions and programs that lead to improvements in our Worldwide Finance Operations organization. The individual will also be charged with preparing and analysing the monthly budget to actual analysis, the monthly metrics reporting, variable cost productivity tracking, and cost out initiatives for Finance Operations Payroll. This position will team with Amazon Finance Operations, Payroll site leaders, and Accounts Payable to identify cost savings objectives. The candidate should have a strong desire in innovating processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation. This person will also be expected to take ownership and drive positive change including evaluating and streamlining existing operational processes, controls and metrics.
Responsibilities include . Driving annual budgeting, financial modelling and variable cost productivity processes
. Working closely with regional leads within the team for month-end Opex accruals evaluating monthly results and variance analysis
. Developing operation metrics, modifying and maintaining operational and design effectiveness of internal controls
. Coordinating with all the Payroll teams in US, Canada, Europe, LATAM, China, India and other locations to ensure strong communication, reporting, and best practices are identified, implemented and followed.
. Forecasting for Payroll Tech function including MBRs and budget planning cycles.
. Providing monthly variance summary for Payroll Tech versus budget and forecasts.
. Ensuring Payroll Tech meets Corp spend targets.
. Develop benchmarking for cost per payslip for global vendors across locations to identify savings year over year
. Helps define / adhere to policies related to AP and all entities invoices are compliant globally
. Compile weekly and monthly communications and metrics reporting for business partners Maintaining the operational and design effectiveness of internal controls
. Ensure Operating expense control versus budget and support achieving cost productivity goals of Payroll
. Responsible for end to end forecasting accuracy of Payroll spend / headcount
. Preparation of long range forecasting for Payroll
. Have an eye for detail and is able to insist on high standards on FP&A reporting
. Should be able to work on forecast loads into the BI system for reporting purposes
. Is able to drive the team towards process excellence
Key job responsibilities
= Control over Payroll spend
= Accurate forecasts for Payroll management to deliver on the cost productivity goal
= High accuracy on Monthly Reporting to Director of Payroll
About the team
FP&A Global Payroll is a team of 8 members delivering metrics / operating expense reporting for Payroll from Hyd, India. The team is directly involved in monthly Payroll operations reporting / decision making.
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 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
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- 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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
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Job ID: 143958965
