Senior Financial Analyst, Global Finance Transformation - Cork | Amazon Job

Job Description

In this project-based role, you will collaborate with global accounting teams to deliver scalable innovative automation and reporting solutions. Your primary focus will be automating financial statements and enhancing both internal and external reporting processes, which involves streamlining complex financial workflows and improving data accuracy and accessibility. You will work with stakeholders to identify challenges, define requirements, and shape technical solutions, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in our reporting and compliance processes.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between accounting, tax, and Fintech teams, fostering effective communication and collaboration.
• Develop country-specific Business Requirement documents, detailing scope, requirements, and addressing common questions from our tech automation partners. Ensure timely and successful delivery of project milestones.
• Test automated output reports against underlying records, leveraging available technologies to streamline this process and build exception reports.
• Collaborate with functional and system teams to assess the impacts of automations and process changes, effectively communicating these to accounting and tax teams.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of processes and controls, ensuring the highest integrity in financial reporting (both US and local GAAP) and tax compliance.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage escalations, and balance business needs with technical constraints.
• Create, maintain, and disseminate detailed project information to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.

A day in the life
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with ambiguity, big data, and enjoys the challenges of highly complex business context. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities, deep knowledge of business intelligence solutions, and the ability to quickly learn, adapt and work with a variety of technologies.

About the team
We are a team of accounting and technical professionals who are dedicated to providing innovative solutions and process improvement to our functional accountant teams to reduce manual effort, increase controllership, and accelerate reporting.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent
- Experience using English communication skills, both written and verbal, to foster seamless interaction with stakeholders at all levels
- Knowledge of Excel at an advanced level
- Significant experience within accounting, preferably gained within a Big Four firm and / or a multinational organization;
- Demonstrated organizational skill set conducive to managing to project milestones.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent)
- Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query)
- Experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau)
- Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query), or experience in finance role where you owned financial reporting for a business area
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous requests and manage multiple competing priorities, prioritize effectively and independently in a fast-paced environment.

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