Senior Program Manager
Amazon
Senior Program Manager
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
We are looking for a team member who is interested in driving efficiency and can collaborate in our fast-paced global organization. The successful candidate will have proven experience delivering process improvement and automation projects on behalf of Accounting functional stakeholders.
Key job responsibilities
• Interact with Project Sponsors, Project Stakeholders and multiple accounting and technical teams to define and deliver solutions to complex challenges
• Drive multiple projects to completion across many organizations and teams
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Facilitate process improvement workshops with stakeholder teams
• Plan and manage multiple parallel projects. Maximize resources for the greater good of the organization
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
• Be the glue that is able to understand, plan, and manage the cross-team inter-dependencies
• Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, numerous constraints and consideration of risk while still showing bias for action
• Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas and have Amazon's success firmly in your focus
• Potential international travel up to ~10%
A day in the life
This role will work with project SME’s, multiple IT teams and Accounting and Compliance stakeholders. The PM will need to energize and harmonize contributors to facilitate a ‘One Team’ working environment. Delivered via Agile methodology, the PM will be required to lead multiple global projects in parallel, agree prioritization/ backlogs with the Global Finance Transformation lead, plan scope and capacity, and then manage the execution and report through to delivery. The emphasis is to invent and simplify to deliver flexible, scalable solutions that meet our customer needs.
About the team
We are a Global Finance Transformation Program working across the Amazon Accounting team. Our goal is to improve our accounting colleagues experience while accelerating financial close, driving compliance and increasing efficiency. This is to be achieved through process improvement projects leveraging standardization and automation of cross-team accounting processes and policies.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to support business decisions
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or experience in project management
- Knowledge of of financial reporting tools (Cognos, Redshift)
- Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions
- Experience with process improvement, Kaizan, and Six Sigma
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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