We are Amazon’s Finance Operations organization and responsible for Amazon’s strategic vendor Payables. We are responsible for making on-time, accurate payments on behalf of the varying business channels. We are seeking a Financial Analyst (AP) that will work directly with our vendors and finance teams to coordinate on time payments. They will own the relationship with the vendors and provide day to day support to enable timely payments. This position will dive deep into vendor payment data, drive process improvements, standardize processes, and eliminate root-cause defects within existing systems.

This role is based in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia (Arlington), where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.

By working together on behalf of our vendors, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.

Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

Key job responsibilities
- Single point of contact for all vendor tasks associated with AP.
- Understand the end to end P2P process.
- Create SOP's and procedural documents.
- Report related key metrics on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
- Create and share root cause analysis & write documents for dive deep sessions.
- Escalate to senior leadership key issues that could impact on time payments.
- Deliver on multiple data requests and participate in process improvement workshops.
- Manage highly ambiguous situations and communicate effectively with multiple stake holders.

NOTE: This role will support teams across multiple time zones, specifically PST business hours.

A day in the life
The position will assist in the development of P2P end to end payment structures for the varying businesses. They will lead projects, create processes/procedures and work with a Global presence.

About the team
This is a strategic team with highly skilled team members with high volumes, high ambiguity and high performance standards. The work location is in Arlington VA and team members are expected to work from office 5x/week.