Senior Accounting Analyst , Finance Operations Accounting and Analysis

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. Accounting is all about numbers…unless you work for Amazon; it is about knowing numbers and so much more. Enthusiasm and energy help us deliver new ideas, and solutions. If you view problems as treasures and enjoy diving deep to identify root causes and develop long-term, scalable solutions, this is the job for you!
Amazon is seeking a highly analytical, meticulous and forward-thinking Senior Staff Accountant to become a key member of its Statutory Support Center based in Beijing. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with Amazon corporate accounting teams across APAC to ensure high quality and timely deliverables in the statutory and financial compliance space.
Strong organizational skills and information technology aptitude Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.


Key job responsibilities
1. Prepare Journal entries, account reconciliation and management reporting for Amazon legal entities;
2. Support the Management in all aspects of financial accounting, reporting systems, procedures and policies;
3. On the audit front, the analysts will manage department’s response to internal and external audit requirements and will also ensure compliance with SOX and policy requirements;
4. Work with finance Operation peers / Central accounting to resolve and escalate issues noted from accounting reconciliation and follow up the action plan to ensure the issue is entirely fixed;
5. Participate/lead projects that contribute to the team's overall efficiency;
6. Analyze data provided by variant tools and systems for internally financial analysis, reporting and documentation;
7. Play an important role in promoting systems/process development within department to ensure ongoing efficiency and control improvements;
8. Other ad hoc tasks assigned.

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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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