Senior Accountant, Accounting

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is a fast paced, dynamic, high-tech company. The global accounting organization supports our financial reporting, internal control, intercompany, and transfer pricing activities and also supports new business launches globally for Amazon in the consumer products, initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business.

We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Accountant to help support the AWS business growth in APAC region. To be successful, you would have held senior analyst or accounting coordination or finance positions in public or private companies, and demonstrated experience to accomplish unusually complex challenge.

This position will have responsibility for supporting the APAC AWS Accounting team to oversee all parts of our financial accounting and reporting functions in APAC, reporting to a manager. In addition, you will be expected to understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to influence the design of systems, processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities. Technical accounting research and technical memo writing may also be required for this position.

Key job responsibilities

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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Singapore, SGP

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree
– Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
– Experience with accounting closing process, including preparing and reviewing reconciliations
– Advanced level understanding of an internal control framework (specifically COSO) and a solid understanding of the concepts of control design and operational efficiency
– Experience with documenting accounting conclusions and related support

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
– Operational accounting experience with international companies
– Experience handling big amount of data and concepts of data analytics and SQL is desirable
– Experience working in a fast paced environment similar to a high tech start-up
– A demonstrated history of solving multiple and complex operational and accounting challenges
– Solid organizational skills along with an aptitude for information technology. Good analytical skills
– Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills