Senior Program Manager, Finance and Business Integration, Accounting - Amazon

Description Amazon has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager to join our Finance and Business Integration team within the Retail Stores Program. This position supports and can directly influence the launches of some of Amazon's newest global business initiatives in the consumer products, digital initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business. This leader will work closely with the global financial systems team, accounting operations teams, tax, treasury, and others and represent the accounting organization to various stakeholders. In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business finance and technical teams to deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated 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 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. Candidate experience should cover financial processes, project management, accounting requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position. Key job responsibilities - Drive program objectives - provide program management and 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. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA Basic Qualifications - 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 Preferred Qualifications - Master's degree, or CMA or CPA - PMP Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $92,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.