Senior Program Manager, Amazon

Accounting Technology Group

$104.1-185k

Senior level
Austin
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

$104.1-185k

Senior level
Austin

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Successful candidates will have to operate successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment
  • Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze large datasets quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize
  • Successful candidates will have deep experience in the following three disciplines – Accounting, Program Management, and Finance Systems
  • 5+ years of program or project management experience
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
  • Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
  • Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules

Desirable

  • Master's degree, or CMA or CPA
  • PMP

What the job involves

  • Accounting Technology Group is hiring a Program Manager to drive and support initiatives across the WorldWide Accounting organization to manage various automation, optimization and geographical expansion projects, with an emphasis in Record to Report space (General Ledger, Consolidation, Financial reporting etc.)
  • Provide program management direction: define project plans, manage implementation activities, and develop processes, documentation and communications for program/process rollout and ongoing support
  • Define requirements and work with partner teams to design, implement and launch scalable solutions
  • Design processes and procedures that scale with the business’ growth in volume, complexity, and global geographic dispersion
  • Communicate new/updated programs and processes to leaders, employees, and cross functional organizations
  • Collaborate and build relationships with system and business owners globally to ensure process excellence and the highest degree of controllership
  • Negotiate efficient and reliable processes and policies across partner teams to systematically eliminate dependencies and defects
  • Work cross-organizationally and functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and developing and implementing plans to capitalize on those opportunities and measure and monitor success and impacts
  • In this role you will be part of a team that collaborates with Accounting and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible
  • You will be responsible for financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing
  • This role will work closely with the global financial systems team, accounting operations teams, and others to represent the Accounting organization

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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