Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager - Global Financial Accounting Controls

Amazon is a fast paced, dynamic, high-tech company based in Seattle. Amazon's finance team is searching for bar-raising financial accounting professionals who consistently exceed expectations, who thrive in a challenging workplace, and who can actively contribute to our talented team. The global accounting organization supports our financial reporting, internal control, intercompany, and transfer pricing activities and also supports new business launches globally for Amazon in the consumer products, digital initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business.

This position will have responsibility for supporting all parts of our financial reporting process. In addition, this position will be expected to 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. Technical accounting research and position paper writing will also be a requirement of this position. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate they were top performers at their level.

We are currently looking for manager level candidates who have held similar positions in larger public companies or who have held a manager level position with a Big 4 public accounting firm serving Fortune 500 clients for 2 or more years. Successful candidates for this position will have the equivalent of 7+ years of professional experience with financial reporting and internal control design related responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges will be expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position.