Description

Amazon is seeking a highly-motivated Financial Analyst to join financial planning and analysis team in finance operation-Payroll. Our desired candidate is an intelligent, hard-working, organized, and detail oriented individual with strong interpersonal skills. The successful candidate will be part of Global payroll FP&A team supporting vendor analytics, invoice management, determines logic for identifying specific spend patterns, identifying suspicious transactions and highlighting to FP&A Managers. The successful candidate will have a strong desire in innovating processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation on behalf of FP&A team.

Primary day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Entering vendor invoices in the invoice reconciliation system. Validate entity address, VAT no, purchase order, services and invoice amount.

• Tracking non-compliant invoices and working with cross functional teams to get the invoices paid.

• Validation of Invoices - Responsible for validating rates used by vendors in invoices as per rates & terms mentioned in signed Statement of Work / Work Order.

• Preparing tracker for invoices received by country, for month close accrual estimations.

• Working with vendors and vendor managers to investigate and resolve pricing discrepancies.

• Monitoring invoice flow from scanning to approval to manage the timely payment to vendors.

• Providing status of payments to FP&A Managers monthly by looking at Oracle reports.

• Preparing reports for Monthly/ Quarterly reviews with managers.

• Creation of Purchase Orders based on signed work order and communicate to vendors.

• Updating global chart of accounts, entity master data for all company codes across the globe.

• Checking for the availability of funds in Purchase Orders and submitting PO funding requisitions in time to avoid late payment to vendor/compliance issues.

• Communicating vendors on the processes to be followed to remain compliant with Amazon Corporate AP guidelines.

• Tracking unpaid invoices and reporting the same on a fortnightly basis to FP&A Managers.

• Should possess good Communication skills and flexible to work for extra hours during peak periods.

• Actively participate in identifying and making improvements to AP-related workflows/processes.

• Assist in other miscellaneous accounting-related processes and procedures

• Ensure predictable and reliable processes with a focus on simplification, efficiency, & enhanced governance, controls and compliance

• Flexible with MS Office (especially Excel, MS Access), should be able to play with data, provide insights on the key metrics of Vendor Operations function

Key job responsibilities

Preparing and tracking cost per payslip by country.

Monthly / Weekly Reporting of key metrics around PO balance, payment accuracy metrics etc.,

Annual PO creation for global Payroll.

A day in the life

Closely working with FP&A peers and global teams within Payroll to ensure, FP&A deliverables are met every day. Aligning activities to meet Payroll FP&A goals.

About the team

Team is based in Hyderabad, working towards delivering Payroll to employees accurately at the highest controllership at the lowest possible cost to Amazon.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Hyderabad, TS, IND

Basic Qualifications

• M.B.A in Finance/Accounting with B.Com/M.Com.

• German Language is a Plus.

• 3-4 years of experience in accounts payable, accounting and finance reporting related functions in MNCs

Preferred Qualifications

• M.B.A in Finance/Accounting with B.Com/M.Com.

• German Language is a Plus.

• 3-4 years of experience in accounts payable, accounting and finance reporting related functions in MNCs

• Experience in Oracle Financials is desired. Basic knowledge of Outlook, Word and Excel or similar desktop applications.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment

• A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations

• Strong customer focus, Demonstrated ability to approach problems logically