DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we're working to be the world’s most customer-centric company. Driving innovation on behalf of customers is core to our mission. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most strategic, impactful, and fastest growing areas within Amazon.

The Senior Manager FinOps will be responsible for service delivery of our Accounts Payable & Receivable function for a specific geo / country and will partner with a diverse set of stakeholders within the Finance Shared Service Organization as well as the business. A key responsibility will be to deliver existing services at a high degree of accuracy, timeliness and controllership, besides supporting the growth in business.

Leading a team of 150-200 resources, this position will provide overall leadership and direction to the team.

This role requires one to be a self-starter with strong business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail and good track record of collaborating with diverse stakeholders. This role has regular interaction with senior leadership and stakeholders across Amazon and requires strong verbal and written communication skills. The candidate will need to be capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy, and hence needs to demonstrate a high degree of comfort with ambiguity besides holding a high bar on performance. The candidate will need to have a proven track record for hiring, developing and retaining the best talent.

Key job responsibilities
Performs autonomously, initiates and manages complex, departmental and/or cross- company work.
· Managing group workload and establishing priorities.
· Is expected to set and improve policies and procedures, maintaining full compliance, implementing best practices.
· Focus is broad, will serve as a consultant or lead on projects and areas of finance or support of a business.
· This position will also act as an escalation point in resolving complex outstanding issues with internal and external business partners.
· Significantly participates in recruiting efforts. Continually raises the bar.
· Significant role in career development of the team.
· Drives execution of vision and goals for the team.
· Responsible for developing and communicating team or department vision and goals.

A day in the life
· Drive development and expansion of systems and processes required to execute on-time payments to Vendors.
· Build and monitor performance metrics, with focus on ensuring on-time payments, cost out initiatives and estimating future headcount growth.
· Lead a team of +150-200 Analysts with 6-8 Directs across Payables process.
· Drive the expansion of self-service functionality in order to improve vendor experience
· Maintain weekly and monthly communications and metrics reporting with Director and VP level business partners and finance teams.
· Developing, modifying and maintaining the operational and design of internal controls
· Lead systems and process improvement initiatives.

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

Hyderabad, TS, IND

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- - Graduation/CA/ICWA/CPA/MBA
- - 18+ years of industry experience in Finance & Accounting with Ops experience in Account Payable & Receivable
- - Experience using data to influence business decisions
- - Experience as a manager of managers
- - Demonstrated ability to lead diverse talent within a team, work cross-functionally, and build consensus on difficult issues
- - Managerial skills to handle problems and crisis in a confident and decisive manner.
- - Ability to make difficult decisions, taking calculated risks and experimenting with new approaches
- - Excellent negotiation, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- - Ability to work under pressure and with strict deadlines

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- - Experience working in a matrixed environment, influencing strategy, and achieving goals by working across the organization
- - Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (esp. MS Excel, Word) at an advanced level
- - Experience in operational excellence using six sigma methodologies
- - Proven Project & Operations Management Skills.