2+ years of finance operations/shared services, accounts payable, account receivable (collections) or general ledger experience.
- Driving process improvements independently.
- Excellent in communication skills - written/verbal, internal/external.
- Fully proficient English and Spanish (Portuguese is a plus).
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.
The FGBS team is looking for an Accounts Payable Analyst to join our Accounts Payable Corporate operations at SJO. The AP Corporate Operations team handles payments to vendors for a large set of the categories of Amazon's expenses. That includes corporate expenses, Employee Expense reports, and Amazon Web Services.
As an Accounts Payable Analyst II (Critical/Non
- Critical Vendors) you will support the procure to pay process. You will be responsible for: invoice processing, invoice troubleshooting, invoice reporting (invoices on hold, productivity, and others), with the highest level of controllership and customer obsession.
Key job responsibilities
- Support invoice processing, invoice troubleshooting, and invoicing for critical or non-critical vendor in LATAM.
- Root cause research and identification for issues impacting payment accuracy metrics, in collaboration with peers and managers.
- Support key vendor trends analysis (I.E. debit balance, pre-payment) by providing the right information, to inform and support business decision making, having direct impact on operational metrics.
- Act as a main point of contact for top Amazon vendors, developing strong business relationships, creating mutual trust, and resolving any conflicts to avoid shipment holds, threads, or other business interruptions.
- Prepare vendor health scorecard and identify vendors accounts likely to become escalations. Support senior analysts in the root cause research.
- Address any account related inquiries and concerns from vendors on a timely manner.
- Maintain compliance best practices, and become an evangelist for Amazon guidelines and local legal requirements. Helps define and adheres to AP policies related to AP and with entities globally.
- Work with the functional leaders and other internal groups to build scalable processes.
- Focus on controllership, presenting internal control improvement opportunities.
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- Proven experience in accounting reconciliation.
- Proficiency in Oracle Financials or other ERPs.
- Lean Six Sigma Certifications.
- Has demonstrated ability to lead a team and influence upwards.
- Strong ability to take initiative and self-start when necessary.
- Proven ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
- Proven ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment.
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.