Risks and Controls Manager, Amazon Leo Accounting, Amazon Leo Accounting Controllership

Amazon Leo Accounting Controllership team has an immediate opening for a Risk and Controls Manager.

We are searching for bar-raising professionals who consistently exceed expectations, who thrive in a challenging workplace, and who can actively contribute to our talented team.

This position is expected to have a deep sense of ownership, strong passion in understanding complex processes, ability to identify financial statement risks, drive positive change across the organization and deliver results.

Amazon Leo Controllership team drives internal controls over financial reporting for Amazon Leo launches, performs internal process, system and control readiness assessments, collaborates with business, tech, finance, accounting teams to design controls that mitigates financial statement risks. We are subject matter experts that consult process, control and system owners across Amazon Leo processes. This role will require a deep understanding and experience with all aspects of internal controls including financial information technology systems for a complex, high-growth stage organization.

Requirements for this position also include a deep knowledge the COSO 2013 framework and SEC/PCAOB regulations, as well as the demonstrated ability to design and monitor an effective global risk-based internal control environment.

We are currently looking for experienced candidates who have held similar positions in large public companies or who have held a similar position within the advisory practice of a Big 4 public accounting firm serving Fortune 500 clients for 6+ years. Demonstrated experience in working collaboratively to accomplish challenges will be expected as this is an ongoing requirement for this position. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate they were top performers at their level.

Key job responsibilities

• Driving end to end process discovery and documentation exercises for complex processes
• Driving control design and implementation with engineering, business, finance and accounting teams
• Assisting with system implementation and migration and respective SDLC controls
• Plan and manage multiple parallel projects
• Advising on and designing controls and compliance programs
• Providing ongoing support to process owners/control owners and cross-functional teams to ensure controls are designed and implemented effectively
• Participating in annual walkthroughs with process/application/control owners across the company and external auditors
• Train control owners and technical teams about controls, testing, and risk management. Perform control testing, as needed.
• Assisting in the evaluation of identified control deficiencies and monitoring of remediation efforts

About the team

In this role, the candidate will be part of a team that collaborates with business, finance and technical teams to deliver world class control solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible. This person will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements and prioritize.