Accounting Manager, Amazon Devices

Job description

At Amazon, innovation drives growth and enables us to offer our customers more types of products conveniently and at even lower prices. Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary device and one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon. We envision wireless electronic reading experiences that embrace a physical book's simplicity and utility but take advantage of our store platform and the Kindle's ubiquitous wireless connectivity.

Our vision for Kindle is to offer every book, ever written, in any language, all available within 60 seconds.

The Amazon Kindle team is seeking an Accounting Manager for our Kindle Books Self-Publishing Operation. This is an exciting opportunity to work on highly visible projects and be part of history in the making!

The Accounting Manager will:

- Evaluate content appropriateness compliance for books submitted through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing.

- Effectively prioritize work time to ensure productivity and fulfill team standards for time spent in order to consistently achieve service levels.

- Identify opportunities to eliminate process redundancy.

- Leverage technology and innovation to bring continuous improvement to the operational processes.

- Work effectively in a cross-functional environment.

- Candidates will be responsible for ensuring program compliance by conducting research to minimize risk to the Kindle Store.

Key job responsibilities

Supporting accounting and reporting processes end-to-end

- Owning process support for finance and business partners

- Assessing and designing internal controls for existing and emerging business activities

- Executing judgment to close the books each month and escalating risks to leadership

- Identifying process improvement and automation opportunities

- Leading delivery of accounting tasks and projects

- Enhancing partnerships between Accounting and business/IT groups

- Researching and memorializing technical accounting position papers

About the team

Amazon Devices and Services Accounting supports one of Amazon's most dynamic business segments — spanning hardware manufacturing, digital content, subscription services, and emerging technologies (Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, Ring, and more