4+ years of Accounts Payable (AP) experience
- 2+ years of team management experience
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
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.
Corporate AP 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. The SJO operation is looking for a forward-looking leader, to join our AP Corporate operations.
Key job responsibilities
- Leading and developing a growing team of AP Corp FinCoM Analysts, including employee training and development; managing group workload and establishing priorities; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed.
- Constantly work with business teams, share metrics and create plan of action for aged items.
- This position will also act as a point of contact in resolving all issues with internal and external business partners (vendors, taxes, vendor managers, accounting, and legal).
- Define key performance indicators - develop operational metrics and service level agreements for processes, and track delivery against global objectives.
- Build processes to highlight issues proactively that would impact payments (Claims and escalations), that have direct impact on payment accuracy.
- Solve critical vendor, process and system escalations effectively to ensure root cause analysis and effective problem resolution.
- Pull and analyze large amounts of data to identify and mitigate defects through detailed analysis.
- Continually strengthening FinOps effectiveness with a relentless focus on identifying and delivering continuous improvement opportunities related to vendor payments and receivables.
Heredia, H, CRI
- Knowledge of Six Sigma defect reduction techniques (Lean, etc.)
- Experience of Oracle/Oracle Payables/Oracle Receivables
- Experience in accounts payable, accounts receivable or procurement