Senior Accountant, Accounting

Amazon is a fast paced, dynamic, high-tech company. The global accounting organization supports our financial reporting, internal control, intercompany, and transfer pricing activities and also supports new business launches globally for Amazon in the consumer products, initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business.

We are currently looking for a senior level candidate to help support the business growth in Amazon’s Sao Paulo, Brazil office. Successful candidates may have held senior analyst or accounting coordination or finance positions in public or private companies and demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is also expected.

This position will have responsibility for supporting the Brazil Accounting team to oversee all parts of our financial accounting and reporting functions in Brazil, reporting to a manager. In addition, this person will be expected to understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to influence the design of systems, processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.


Key job responsibilities
• Manage the period-end close process by ensuring accurate and timely completion of all revenue accounting entries and reconciliations for assigned AWS services, including preparation and review of complex journal entries related to revenue.

• Oversee key revenue lifecycle events including new product launches and contract modifications.

• Prepare Accounting Requirement Documents for project launches.

• Drive revenue accounting projects, provide guidance on revenue recognition, and serve as a key point of contact for finance and business partners to resolve revenue-related issues.

• Consult with business partners to identify relevant stakeholders and potential issues on new project launches.

• Research and document revenue accounting concepts. Develop understanding of AWS transaction flows and systems affecting revenue recognition.

• Conduct in-depth analysis of revenue-related balances and provide explanations of account movements to support financial reporting.

• Create robust analytics demonstrating understanding of revenue streams and relationships between entities.

• Technical accounting research and technical memo writing may also be a requirement for this position.- Accounting Bachelor degree.
- Thorough knowledge of Brazilian and U.S. GAAP (including the FASB Codification) and related research tools
- Experience with accounting closing process, including preparing and reviewing reconciliations.
- Advanced level understanding of an internal control framework (specifically COSO) and a solid understanding of the concepts of control design and operational efficiency.
- Experience with documenting accounting conclusions and related support.
- Written and spoken fluency in English and Portuguese required.- Big 4 public accounting experience with Fortune 500 clients.
- Operational accounting experience with international companies.
- Experience handling big amount of data and concepts of data analytics and SQL is desirable.
- Experience working in a fast paced environment similar to a high tech start-up.
- A demonstrated history of solving multiple and complex operational and accounting challenges.
- Aptitude for leading teams – influencing and galvanizing others to follow you toward a solution.
- Solid organizational skills along with an aptitude for information technology.
- Good analytical skills.
- Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills.

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