Finance Manager, FOAA

We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Finance Manager to join our Finance Operations Accounting and Analysis (FOAA) team in Bangalore.
This role is critical to ensure that our accounting processes run smoothly in a highly controlled and compliant environment, delivering exceptional accuracy, efficiency, and insights aligned with Amazon’s leadership principles of Customer Obsession, Deliver Results, and Insist on the Highest Standards.
You will work closely with Central Accounting, Finance Operations, and Global Finance teams to support month-end close, drive operational excellence, and uphold rigorous financial control standards. This position plays a pivotal role in closing global books, preparing reconciliations, managing journal entries, driving reporting, and engaging with leadership on performance reviews.
Key job responsibilities
The candidate would be responsible for financial close and performing related reporting, accruals etc. Additionally, the role would support monthly P&L analysis, perform financial reporting and forecasts, use financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets, and perform headcount reporting, planning and forecasting. Additional responsibilities would include establishing, measuring and monitoring weekly KPI metric discussions for new and/or existing business initiatives and operational performance and assisting in measuring and reporting progress on key goals for the business team in a timely and accurate manner. The candidate would also perform ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling, provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews in a timely manner, facilitate business reviews with data analysis, facilitate financial review meetings with business groups and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management, partner with stakeholders to develop strategic multi-year or long term operating plans, challenge processes, identify and implement solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes, and identify incomplete or inaccurate data, root cause of data issues, escalate discrepancies, fix data where possible or partner to deliver a solution.
- 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
- 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 5+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience
- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
- 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making
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