Bachelor's degree (accounting, business administration) - Minimum of 2 years professional experience in Finance (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable), Payments, Treasury or Invoice Entry.
- Excellent language skills - English and Spanish.
- Ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
- Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.
- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.
- Analytical skills with the ability to get into the detail, while also seeing and understanding the bigger picture.
- Experience in communication with external customers/suppliers.
Amazon Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS) plays a key role in the company's mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company.
FGBS includes finance functions like Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Accounting, Tax, as well as other functions like Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF), Investor Relations, and Benchmarking.
We are looking for a Finance Analyst to join our AP team to support vendor queries, disputes, shipments holds, etc.
The AP Analysts must perform a dive deep to identify root causes for short payments as well as to work with global stakeholders (internal/external) to identify improvement opportunities and help drive the same
Key job responsibilities
- Perform root cause analyses on vendor and invoice level.
- Support bank traces, payment & invoices inquiries
- Contribute to metrics and reporting.
- Drive process standardization by documenting and auditing different process steps.
- Interaction with internal stakeholders, vendor managers, financial communication partners, business partners.
- Look for ways to automate processes.
- Support with analytical work (reports, queries, investigation on tools and system - how can we utilize other input).
- Support the team with data analysis
Addressing any account related inquiries and concerns from vendors and ensuring vendors know to use the Amazon tools
- Drive defect resolution for Supplier identified defects.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders for amicable Vendor solutions.
- Additional language skills (Portuguese fluency desired but not required).
- Experience with Oracle Financials.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOK UP, HLOOK UP, filters, basic functions, tables).
- Experience in Bank Platforms management (Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Banco de Chile, HSBC).
- Knowledge of Amazon financial and logistic tools.
- Ability to work under pressure.