Description

Amazon Japan is hiring a Finance Manager for the Finance Operations (FinOps) Business Partnership (BP) team based in Tokyo that owns the end to end Corporate Accounts Payable (A/P) process. Amazon’s Corporate A/P are growing and expanding at a rapid pace resulting in a dynamic work environment with many opportunities. FinOps is one of the core organizations in the Amazon Finance Community. The organization roles up to the VP of Global Finance Operations who directly reports to SVP & CFO of WW Amazon. FinOps consists of a variety of Finance and Accounting operations including technical expertise of financial management. BP is the liaison function between business operations and core F&A expertise including FinOps service center (SC) operations.

アマゾンファイナンスオペレーション(FinOps)ビジネスパートナシップチームでは、主としてAmazon コーポレートアカウントペイアブル（A/P) の支払全般を担当するファイナンスマネジャーを募集しています。非常に早いペースで成長を続ける Amazon のビジネスにおいて、Opportunityが多くやりがいのある環境で力を発揮してみませんか？ FinOps は、アマゾンのファイナンス部門のコア部門の一つであり、グローバルCFOにレポートするリーダーシップチームの傘下になります。FinOpsは、テクニカルな専門性も含めた様々なチームで構成されます。BPは、ビジネス部門とFinOpsのサービスセンターと共に、会計的専門性をもって課題に取り組みます。

Key job responsibilities

This position is primarily the front line of some of our APAC (total of over 10 countries including Japan, Australia, Singapore) Corporate A/P operations involved in the monitoring of payments as well as driving end-to-end improvements to such processes. This position will manage projects and collaborate with multiple Amazon businesses and technical owners globally along with day to day operations such as problem-solving and handling inquiries and escalations. The expected tasks in “project” include but are not limited to analysis, change management, process improvement, and creation of management information metrics and dashboards. Process improvements cover various areas such as timeliness and accuracy of our payment, vendor satisfaction, free cash flows and controllership. An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding work environment is critical to this role. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, a quick learner, and will have the ability to efficiently manage various high-priority and visible projects and operational tasks.

このポジションでは主にAsia Pacific　（日本、シンガポール、オーストラリアを含む10か国以上）の事業費・販売管理費に関わる買掛金（A/P）のFront Lineとして、A/P業務のサポートの他、支払いや入金のモニタリング、プロセスの改善に積極的に取り組んで頂きます。支払に関する問題解決、ベンダーコミュニケーションや部署内での難題やエスカレーションの対応といった 日々のオペレーションに留まらず、複数のプロジェクトを推進し、世界中のAmazonビジネスオーナー、システムオーナー達と協業しながら改善の成果をあげる事が求められます。「プロジェクト」では、各種分析から改善の実行と共に成果指標の作成やダッシュボードの設定などもその重要なTask の一つです。また改善の対象は、支払の適時性と正確性、コスト全般、ベンダー満足度、フリーキャッシュフローの改善、コントローラーシップなど多岐に亘ります。変化が早く、多くの事を求められる職場環境にやりがいを見出し、自ら仕事を進めてゆける方を求めています。セルフスターター、クイックラーナーである事、また、複数のHigh- Priorityなプロジェクトを効果的に管理できる能力も必要な資質になります。

A day in the life

OPERATIONS

· Manage any systematic and operational issues during invoice processing

· Support daily execution of vendor payments from Amazon Asia-Pacific entities to vendors globally

· Maintain end to end responsibility of key AP processes and work with technology teams to understand, measure and improve support systems

· Respond to vendors’ and internal inquiries with focus on high customer satisfaction

· Provide controllership for the business teams to ensure that policies and procedures are met

· Manage two financial analysts, assigning tasks and monitoring the outcome

· Liaise with global counter-party to keep up with global initiatives

PROJECTS

· Support offshore transactional teams with root cause identification, identifying appropriate remediation and execute on a project plan with appropriate level of urgency

· Serve as a key business partner working directly with business leaders and cross-functional teams, presenting results of ad-hoc business and statistical analysis and recommendations to senior management for optimal decision making

· Compliance and regulatory required projects for emerging markets

· Maintain project plans, assigning and tracking tasks to respective teams. Locate and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports. Exceptional discipline of meeting deadlines while managing multiple projects

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. or B.A. in Finance / Accounting/ Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience or related field 10+ years of financial and/or operational experience

• Fluent in reading, writing, and speaking Japanese and English languages

• Experience working with enterprise-level ERP systems

• Internal and external customer focus and a work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations

• Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills in a cross cultural setting Independent and Entrepreneurial

• Ability to work with minimal guidance in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment

• Proven project management ability that shows how to organize, find solutions, and follow through to a successful conclusion

• Excellent analytical and reporting skills, and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture

• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and deliver results while managing multiple projects

• Proven excellent communication skill (written and verbal) and/or confidence in communicating and enforcing difficult business decisions

• Team management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience

• MBA, or CPA

• 5+ years of SOX and/or Audit engagements experience

• Experience with process improvement, Kaizan, and Six Sigma