Amazon - Finance Operations Business Partner

FinOps Manager India AWS - HYD (10-20 yrs)

- As a Finance Operations Business Partner, you will work with customer-centric, entrepreneurial and determined teams to drive financial results and scalable processes. To support business growth, the candidate will have an owner's mindset, a strong desire in innovating processes on behalf of customers and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, a strong passion for accountability, set high standards, raise the bar and drive results through continuous improvements.

- The focus areas of this role include continuously improving customer experience, reducing upstream defects through tech and non-tech interventions, improve controllership by driving policy changes, guide the collections, and cash application teams to streamline processes and improve free cashflow. The role requires effective engagement across multiple stakeholders and earning trust of leadership teams in Finance, Business, Tax, and Technology.

- To succeed, you must be strategic and detail oriented, have good accounting and finance skills, strong interpersonal and influencing skills (this role will have frequent communication with senior leadership and represent customer pain-points to influence project prioritization), and the ability to gather/ build business and technical requirements to drive cross-functional initiatives.

- Partner with business teams to support product/s launch and enable business expansions as a core team member representing Finance Operations. Participate in developing long range plans with business.

- Maintain exceptional relationship with business stakeholders, and identify and resolve key business issues impacting finance operations ability to provide optimal customer experience

- Work with various technology teams to innovate, identify, and develop long term scalable technology solutions to support business growth.

- Work with business groups to understand business model & different finance processes, and be a strong voice of controllership and compliance to Finance Operations interconnected process owners. Build processes, define procedures and policies with strong focus on Controllership and Compliance.

- Identify and develop opportunities for improved cash flow, margin or productivity internal and external to Finance Operations, collaborating and building relationships with system and business owners globally to drive end-to-end improvements and sound financial and customer experience recommendations and successes.

- Identify and deliver improvements in downstream results by eliminating upstream inefficiencies and defects.

- Liaise with Tax, Legal and Accounting teams to understand their requirements and incorporate them in Business Requirement document (BRD) while engaging with technology teams to translate business requirements into configurable design specs

Basic qualifications :

- Professional Qualification such as CA, CMA or an MBA in Finance from a Tier I Institute - 10+ years of experience in finance, finance operations, project management with preference to Order-to-Cash management.  

- Experience defining program requirements, finance process controls, policies to mitigate operational risk and using data to determine improvements.

 - Experience in writing compelling business-cases for justifying technology investment and implement changes for process improvements. 

- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.  Strong interpersonal skills - including written and oral communication skills.

Preferred qualifications :

- Expertise in Six Sigma defect reduction techniques (DMAIC, etc.) Experience using Oracle Financial Applications , Experience working in India compliance related projects