Senior Program Manager, Global Finance Transformation

Job description

We are looking for a team member who is interested in driving efficiency and can collaborate in our fast-paced global organization. The successful candidate will have proven experience delivering process improvement and automation projects on behalf of Accounting functional stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

• Interact with Project Sponsors, Project Stakeholders and multiple accounting and technical teams to define and deliver solutions to complex challenges
• Drive multiple projects to completion across many organizations and teams
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Facilitate process improvement workshops with stakeholder teams
• Plan and manage multiple parallel projects. Maximize resources for the greater good of the organization
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
• Be the glue that is able to understand, plan, and manage the cross-team inter-dependencies
• Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, numerous constraints and consideration of risk while still showing bias for action
• Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas and have Amazon's success firmly in your focus
• Potential international travel up to ~10%

A day in the life

This role will work with project SME’s, multiple IT teams and Accounting and Compliance stakeholders. The PM will need to energize and harmonize contributors to facilitate a ‘One Team’ working environment. Delivered via Agile methodology, the PM will be required to lead multiple global projects in parallel, agree prioritization/ backlogs with the Global Finance Transformation lead, plan scope and capacity, and then manage the execution and report through to delivery.

The emphasis is to invent and simplify to deliver flexible, scalable solutions that meet our customer needs.

About the team

We are a Global Finance Transformation Program working across the Amazon Accounting team.

Our goal is to improve our accounting colleagues experience while accelerating financial close, driving compliance and increasing efficiency. This is to be achieved through process improvement projects leveraging standardization and automation of cross-team accounting processes and policies.