AmazonAccounting Manager, LATAM Stores Accounting Team
Amazon is hiring an Accounting Manager, LATAM Stores Accounting Team in São Paulo, Brazil. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- The posting mentions Excel, financial reporting and internal controls among its tools and skills.
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Manages financial accounting, reporting functions, and internal controls for the LATAM Stores Accounting team.
We are currently looking for a manager level candidate to help support the business growth in Amazon’s Sao Paulo, Brazil office. Successful candidates may have held manager accounting or finance positions in public or private companies and demonstrated experience in leading teams to accomplish unusually complex challenges is also expected.
Key job responsibilities
• Oversee financial accounting and reporting functions for the areas under your ownership, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and internal policies
• Understand and implement internal control design principles, assessing the effectiveness of controls within your area of influence to maintain financial integrity
• Provide technical accounting knowledge and support to stakeholders, conducting accounting research and preparing technical memos as required
• Identify incomplete or inaccurate data, determine root causes, and execute fixes while partnering on resolutions that maintain the highest standards
• Drive process improvements by proposing changes and implementing enhancements to remediate gaps and scale controllership with measurable results
A day in the life
You'll collaborate with your manager to address priorities and provide technical accounting guidance to stakeholders, as well as performing the month-end-closing activities for the area under your scope. You'll apply your understanding of internal control design to assess effectiveness within your area. You may research accounting treatments for new business launches, prepare technical memos, and support leadership in Brazil with financial insights and reporting.
About the team
Our team is responsible for all accounting processes related to the Retail business in LATAM. We work collaboratively to ensure accurate financial reporting, effective controls, and technical accounting support for business operations. As the organization expands across Latin America, we play a crucial role in supporting new business launches and initiatives. We value team members who can provide technical expertise while maintaining high standards in our accounting practices.
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- CPA
- Knowledge of one or multiple accounting frameworks (including US GAAP, IFRS, or local GAAP frameworks), with the ability to apply them in day-to-day financial activities
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
- Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions
- Solid SOX and/or Audit engagements experience
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting month-end closing processes and contributing to financial reporting under established procedures
- Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
- Speak, write, and read fluently in Spanish
- MBA
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Accounting Manager, LATAM Stores Accounting Team at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- $110k
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- Tell me about a project where tax was part of your work. What did you do?
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