The AWS Accounts Receivable (AR) team is seeking a self-driven Finance Leader with a good owner’s mindset, relentless customer advocacy, and frontline obsession to be the global accounts receivables leader for the AWS Public Sector (PS) channel, and other global projects, such as AWS hyperaged small balance. The successful candidate will help us to build the accompanying processes and mechanisms to support this growth and improve free cash flow globally. This will require working across teams that span multiple geographies to drive policy, process, internal and partner facing tools, building and guiding frontline collections, and cash application teams.
A critical factor for this position’s success is the ability to manage deep levels of complexity to identify gaps and opportunities, with a proven ability to recommend and implement automation and scalable solutions to streamline workflows. This is a great opportunity to work with Amazon tech teams, learn, and be exposed to cutting edge AI solutions.
You must be great at communicating complex issues simply and to any audience. You will devise clear strategy, positioning and execution priorities and will be comfortable thinking big and diving deep. This leader will be a pragmatic visionary who can identify opportunities and lead the team to translate them into workable, scalable technology solutions, and must be comfortable partnering and influencing business leaders, customers, technology, and operations stakeholders.
Key job responsibilities
The O2C WWPS Single Threaded Leader (STL) role is an individual contributor that will count with execution support from a dotted line organization, including Service Centers, Business and Tech teams. The STL must be strategic and detail oriented, have good accounting and finance skills, robust interpersonal and influencing skills (this role will have frequent communication with senior leadership), good organizational and project management skills, and the ability to gather business and technical requirements across global teams to drive systems and change management processes. The STL will need to roll up his/her sleeves, work independently, and have a high level of ownership and accountability. - 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 6+ years of identifying and implementing opportunities to resolve finance issues, improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes across teams and organizations experience
- Experience in finance operations, with preference to Order-to-Cash (O2C) experience; Program and project management experience; Advanced Excel skills, comfortable handling and analyzing data.- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience in Accounts Receivable within large organizations, including Public Sector portfolio.
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