2+ years of post-qualification experience in Shared Services Accounts Receivable or Collections.. Business to business collections experience.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong Customer focus.
- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Strong interpersonal skills — including written and oral communication skills.
- Fully proficient in Spanish and English.
Amazon's Finance Operations department is seeking for a Financial Analyst to support Accounts Receivable for AMERICAN countries.
Please be aware you should be fully proficient in Spanish and English.
This person will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:
- Full cycle of Accounts Receivable Cash Application process, including: research, analysis, resolve account discrepancies, unapplied and unidentified payments, calling customers to perform cash app activities and provide high quality customer experience.
- Process and reconcile account receivables and remittances
- Managing internal and external Cash Application inquiries.
- Maintain Customer relationships by responding timely and accurately to both internal (company) and external (customer directly) questions and requests for information.
- Following Standard Operating Procedures and process workflows.
Also, SOP creation and maintenance.
- Collaborating with the Global Finance Operations team and internal business partners in the US, CA, LATAM and new Geo Launches.
- Timely publish report via weekly metrics and provide status updates on projects
- Participate in operational excellence activities
- Analyze existing processes and recommend process improvements for same while managing all internal controls on documents.
- Ensure financial compliance controls are in place and running effectively.
Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the full cycle of the AR Cash Application process for US, BR, MX markets and coming launches.
- Meet the Operational and Internal goals for each Cash App process.
- Pull and analyze large amounts of data from different sources (ERPs, Bank statements and Accounting reconciliation files,) to identify and mitigate discrepancies and defects through detailed analysis
- Provide support on audits and self-inspections performed to review Account Receivables Cash Application processes due to Tax reforms requirements for US, BR, MX and new markets
- Engage with different teams across multiple geographies in order to understand best practices and potentially replicate them.
- Be a main POC across AR Team that enables proper conflict resolution and critical thinking.
- Think Big by expediting unapplied balances resolution from assigned AR Portfolio as the same time of detecting root cause for main road blockers.
- Constantly look for diverse angles and perspectives to mitigate operational risk but also deliver process optimization.
- Engage in collection management processes as necessary
A day in the life
You will review your assigned AR accounts portfolio in order to resolve discrepancies as well as prioritize issues resolution by Deep Diving across common issues, unapplied, unidentified, inter-company payments and other problems.
You will Think Big by designing strategic plans that allow you to remove road blockers and be able to provide solutions to the main Top Offenders of your AR portfolio.
Also, You will be able to determine the right moment when management support is required for critical and high risk accounts resolution.
About the team
We are the FinOps Accounts Receivable Team.
Our operation covers AWS and Non AWS services including Retail, Studios, Fuse and others.
We partner with both internal and external customers located in across the globe to deliver a high quality E2E process.
Our top mission is to partner with our customers to ensure a world wide service while maintaining a healthy and balanced portfolio.
We offer extensive and unique experiences since we have a global model that empowers us to carry out our AR daily tasks under the best quality and efficiency standards.
CPA, CMA or equivalent with 2+ or more years of post-qualification experience in Shared Services, AR or Accounting.
Proficiency in Oracle Financials ERP & Six Sigma methodologies
Excellent in communication skills - written/verbal, internal/external
Has demonstrated ability to work/lead as a team
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
Portuguese fluency (desire but not required)
Customer's portal knowledge.