Financial Analyst - Lease Accounting

Financial Analyst I, FOAA Leases

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Amazon's Finance Operations, Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) team is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. FOAA is seeking a Finance Analyst to support our US GAAP lease accounting process under ASC 842.
Key Roles and Responsibilities are:
1. Perform/Support the month end activities which include closing of sub ledgers, general ledger account reconciliations, reporting and balance sheet account analysis.
2. Prepare month end Flux analysis for all P&L and Balance sheet accounts and share with Stakeholders along with the analysis on the reasons for the changes.
3. Demonstrate a proficient level of professional skill and knowledge in accounting and apply this in-depth knowledge, principles and systems design to recognize complex and unique issues and develop resolution and/or consistently consult with leadership in order to achieve resolution
4. Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures and internal controls are in place, documented and also work on process improvements.
5. Responsible for Preparing Balance sheet reconciliations for lease accounts with leasing sub-ledger reports and highlighting and taking necessary action upon the issues appropriately.
6. Interact and working closely with the auditors on audit related queries and ensure smooth completion of the audits .
7. Responsible for GRC compliance, internal control and get the alignment of improvements/changes with the Stakeholder.
8. Perform and support new business/system launches including UAT, drive /support automation initiatives.


Key job responsibilities
Balance sheet reconciliations
Drive process improvements and automations
MEC close
Posting Journal entries
Performing root cause analysis for open items in reconciliations.
Performing sub-ledger updates

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of finance experience
- 1+ years of transactional accounting field experience
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis

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Experience Level

Entry Level