Controllership Lead - Finance Operations (Accounts Receivable)

Controllership Lead, FinOps - AR AWS

Description

The Global Accounts Receivable (GAR) team is seeking a passionate Controllership Lead with deep auditing expertise to help achieve our vision of providing a world-class Order-to-Cash (O2C) experience to our internal and external customers in support of Amazon's journey to become Earth's most customer-centric company.
The Controllership Lead must be strategic and detail-oriented, with strong accounting and finance skills, robust auditing experience, excellent interpersonal and influencing capabilities, strong organizational and project management abilities, and the capacity to gather business and technical requirements across global teams to drive systems and change management processes. This person will need to roll up their sleeves, work independently, and demonstrate an extremely high level of ownership and ability to dive deep. This leader will seek out opportunities to reduce risk to the business by minimizing manual touches, eliminating process waste, and moving toward scalability and self-service. Leveraging audit experience and deep understanding of control environments, this individual will collaborate with tech teams to implement AI and emerging technologies that strengthen internal controls while improving operational efficiency.
By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.
Key Responsibilities:
• Partner with internal and external audit teams to ensure compliance with financial controls, SOX requirements, and audit standards across global cash application operations.
• Lead audit readiness initiatives, including process documentation, control testing, and remediation of audit findings to maintain financial integrity and regulatory compliance.
• Conduct deep dives and audits of accounts receivables processes to identify control gaps, process inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities, providing actionable recommendations for goal achievement.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive process documentation, control matrices, and audit trails to support internal and external audit requirements.
• Conduct risk assessments and audit reviews for new product and System of Record (SOR) launches, partnering with Launch and Tech teams to identify and mitigate potential impacts to account receivable systems, including OFA (Oracle Financials) and CP (Customer Payments) systems, prior to implementation.
• Drive controllership initiatives including compliance monitoring, financial reporting accuracy, and risk mitigation across global accounts receivable operations.
. Leverage AI and emerging technologies to strengthen internal controls, automate routine O2C processes, and improve operational efficiency across global accounts receivable operations.



Key job responsibilities
Are you passionate about developing innovative processes that combine finance, operations excellence, and technology to drive improvement? Have you led large cross-functional projects to increase efficiency and accuracy while reducing waste? If so, the Finance Operations team is the place for you. Our priority is to identify, scope, and deliver upstream systems and process improvements that reduce operating expense, increase free cash flow, improve customer experience, and establish first-pass yield process efficiencies.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of SOX and/or Audit engagements experience
- 5+ years of controllership or compliance experience

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA

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