Finance Manager, FinOps BP - APAC Corp AP, FinOps Business Partnership
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Japan is hiring a Finance Manager for the Finance Operations (FinOps) Business Partnership (BP) team based in Tokyo that owns the end to end Corporate Accounts Payable (A/P) process. Amazon’s Corporate A/P are growing and expanding at a rapid pace resulting in a dynamic work environment with many opportunities. FinOps is one of the core organizations in the Amazon Finance Community. The organization roles up to the VP of Global Finance Operations who directly reports to SVP & CFO of WW Amazon. FinOps consists of a variety of Finance and Accounting operations including technical expertise of financial management. BP is the liaison function between business operations and core F&A expertise including FinOps service center (SC) operations.
Key job responsibilities
This position is primarily the front line of our Japan Corporate A/P operations involved in the monitoring of payments as well as driving end-to-end improvements to such processes (Other countries in Asia-Pacific may be in scope). This position will manage projects and collaborate with multiple Amazon businesses and technical owners globally along with day to day operations such as problem-solving and handling inquiries and escalations. The expected tasks in “project” include but not limited to analysis, change management, process improvement, and creation of management information metrics and dashboards. Process improvements cover various areas such as timeliness and accuracy of our payment, vendor satisfaction, free cash flows and controllership. An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding work environment is critical to this role. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, a quick learner, and will have the ability to efficiently manage various high-priority and visible projects and operational tasks.
A day in the life
OPERATIONS
· Manage any systematic and operational issues during invoice processing
· Support daily execution of vendor payments from Amazon Asia-Pacific entities to vendors globally
· Maintain end to end responsibility of key AP processes and work with technology teams to understand, measure and improve support systems
· Respond to vendors’ and internal inquiries with focus on high customer satisfaction
· Provide controllership for the business teams to ensure that policies and procedures are met
·Liaise with global counter-party to keep up with global initiatives
About the team
PROJECTS
· Support offshore transactional teams with root cause identification, identifying appropriate remediation and execute on a project plan with appropriate level of urgency
· Serve as a key business partner working directly with business leaders and cross-functional teams, presenting results of ad-hoc business and statistical analysis and recommendations to senior management for optimal decision making
· Compliance and regulatory required projects for the countries in scope
· Maintain project plans, assigning and tracking tasks to respective teams. Locate and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports. Exceptional discipline of meeting deadlines while managing multiple projects
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 8+ years of financial and/or operational experience
- Fluent in reading, writing and speaking Japanese and English
- Experience working with enterprise-level ERP systems
- Internal and external customer focus and a work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations
- Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills in a cross cultural setting
- Ability to work with minimal guidance in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Proven project management ability that shows how to organize, find solutions , and follow through to successful conclusion
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills, and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and deliver results while managing multiple projects
- Proven excellent communications skills (written and verbal)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 5+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results