Senior FinOps Analyst, Global Financial Audit

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to support its Global Financial Audit program. If you view problems as treasures and enjoy diving deep to identify root causes and developing long-term, scalable solutions, this is the job for you! The position represents an exciting opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and high paced environment in a role that supports a global organization and offers significant opportunities for rapid growth.

Key job responsibilities
The Senior FinOps Analyst will partner with the Global Retail and Finance teams across geographies to support various analytical and audit needs. This role supports the operational function related to Amazon’s Internal Recoveries audits with wide-ranging responsibilities, including performing analysis to identify defects across vendor contracts and set-ups, validating findings, communicating with process-owning teams worldwide and driving actions/items to closure.

Key roles and responsibilities include:
1. Performing audit reviews across Amazon's financial systems using Amazon internal and third-party audit tools with the highest degree of accuracy
2. Managing vendor queries/disputes on audit claims and identifying the root-cause of vendor disputes, wherever applicable
3. Communicating with process owning teams to validate findings and reduce defects in the processes
4. Reporting on audit findings/defects on a regular basis
5. Coordinating with various accounting and finance vertical teams (Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable) to ensure procedures and controls are routinely applied whilst performing audit operations
6. Contributing to process improvements required to enhance controls and/or optimize team productivity
7. Contributing to standard operating procedure (SOP) enhancements and calibration
8. Actively participating in strategic initiatives and special projects, as appropriate

About the team
Global Financial Audit (GFA) is a Finance function operating through both internal and external teams with the objective to recover missed or underbilled funding, overpayments and savings due to Amazon from current and prior periods. Scope includes Stores Vendors (Inventory), Non-Inventory Vendors (construction, contract compliance etc.), Corporate, Subsidiaries and affiliated business units, wherever possible. In addition, GFA works proactively with upstream tech and process owning teams to identify and reduce defects based on root cause reporting owned by GFA, and focuses on vendor experience improvements by reviewing vendor contacts/correspondence and monthly vendor experience metrics.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of Excel at an advanced level
• Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
• 2+ years of finance operations/shared services, accounts payable, account receivable (collections) or general ledger experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years of fraud audits/risk investigations experience
• MBA
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.

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