Senior Accountant, Amazon Leo Accounting

Saved job description

Amazon has an immediate opening for an Senior Accountant, to support Amazon Leo, Amazon's long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites providing high-speed broadband connectivity to underserved communities worldwide. If you are a financial accounting professional who consistently exceeds expectations, who dares to make bold decisions, and whose ears perk up at the prospect of a challenge, then Amazon is a place where your career can flourish.

When working at Amazon, your ability to make a difference and take ownership of your career begins on day one. You can expect a collaborative, team-driven environment that encourages employees to learn, be curious, and have a bias for action. This position offers the opportunity to make significant contributions to the business, while collaborating with diverse teams to solve unusually complex challenges, in a fast-paced, global environment.

Amazon Leo's accounting group offers opportunities in Revenue, Supply Chain, and Infrastructure Accounting.

Key job responsibilities

- Support various aspects of our accounting and reporting process.

- End-to-end process ownership to support finance and business partners.

- Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.

- Analysis of complex processes and systems data.

- Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month.

- Escalate risks and issues as necessary to leadership.

- Identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization.

- Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects.

- Enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.

- Identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization.

- Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects.

- Enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups.

Requirements: - 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

- Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.