Amazon - Senior Manager - Internal Audit

- We are looking for a high-energy, experienced Senior Internal Audit Manager to oversee audits and risk assessment activities across Amazon's Worldwide Amazon Stores businesses and provide leadership for Internal Audit in India at a country level. In this high visibility role, you will build relationships with senior leaders and will have the opportunity to influence improvements throughout the company. Our Internal Audit team is cross-functional, and you will perform a wide range of financial, technical and operational audits. We are seeking an individual with a firm audit background. Join us and take your audit, risk, leadership experiences and innovative ideas to the next level.

- At Amazon we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth, and that includes protecting our customers and their data. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Internal Audit is a global, fast paced, dynamic team. We are one of many mechanisms at the company with the aim of continuous improvement. We look across the entire company at business, finance, and operational processes and the technologies that support them, evaluating risks that could harm our customers, the company, or prevent us from achieving objectives.

- You will be responsible for leading Internal Audit risk assessment activities, covering a variety of teams across Amazon's Worldwide Stores lines of business. You will meet with senior leaders to understand the business and leverage multiple sources of business data to help you assess risks. You will be the internal audit leader and point of contact for India with country leadership. You will use the risk assessment, your high judgement, and experience to identify potential audits and influence the audit pipeline and resource allocation.

- You will oversee a portfolio of audits and will mentor and support Audit Managers and Lead Auditors to help them scope, plan and execute high-quality and impactful audits, which address the most important opportunities/risks.

- You will insist on the highest standards for your team and your audits, and you will be able to dive deep into every audit area, apply broad technical knowledge, sound business judgment, and partner with key stakeholders. You will understand complex business processes, system workflows, and technology to be able to identify the full range of risks relevant to the businesses and to help guide business owners in defining effective and value-added risk mitigation plans.

- This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires good interpersonal and communication skills. You must be an excellent writer who can succinctly communicate complicated technical and operational issues in business terms. You must be comfortable performing in a highly collaborative environment and working with your peers to accomplish joint projects and meet the objectives of Internal Audit and Amazon. You must be a project manager who can manage end-to-end audit projects and borrowed resources, often managing multiple projects at once.

- You will help Internal Audit recruit from within Amazon and externally and with a passion for helping auditors expand their knowledge of the business, develop risk, analytical and auditing skills, improve their judgement and leadership capabilities, and grow their careers.

- To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate high judgement, clear communication, creative approaches, the ability to think big, a consistent track record of delivering results and hiring and developing the best. You will thrive in a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic environment, and you will effectively work autonomously in an ambiguous environment and be able to lead and develop cross functional teams

Ability to travel up to 30%

Key job responsibilities:

The Sr. Manager, Risk for Internal Audit works strategically to identify risks across the businesses. From the ongoing risk assessment, they create and prioritize audits for their teams. Throughout the audit process, they ensure clarity for their audit teams. The Sr. Manager drives quality in audits and across internal audit.

A day in the life:

A day in the life of a Sr. Manager, Risk- Internal Audit for India includes all the Sr. Manager responsibilities as well as country level engagement with senior leadership. They may be a representative for Internal Audit with the India entities and boards.

Basic qualifications:

- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

- 3+ years of performing financial and ad hoc analysis using data reporting tools experience

- 10+ years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience

- 8+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

- 8+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

- 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

- 8+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

- 7+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 10+ members experience

- Degree in finance, accounting or related field

Preferred qualifications:

- 5+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience

- 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

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

- 8+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience

- 5+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience

- MBA, or CPA