Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon is a leading technology company focused on delivering fast, reliable internet through its low Earth orbit satellite broadband network, Amazon Leo. They are seeking a Senior SAP Finance Functional Manager to lead SAP Finance and Controlling initiatives, manage project portfolios, and optimize business processes using SAP solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build SAP based product vision and solutions
- Ability to identify and implement best practices to optimize business processes using SAP and championing for utility/intuitiveness/simplicity of process/product
- Conduct Blueprint workshops, fit-gap analysis and produce detailed design documents reasoning from core needs, reasoning from core needs, challenging assumptions
- Identify change management and training needs, support creating training documentation and lead train the trainer sessions for Product changes
- Participate in strategic planning, roadmap discussions for SAP solutions including contributions to Amazon 1yr-3yr annual planning
- Manage quarter planning, sprint planning, deployment for product feature enhancements bringing in business value, business impact and reasoning
- Defining critical metrics including - success metrics, product adoption, data driven insights into product improvement
- Prepare product design, functional specifications, configure, test and support implementation for all SAP RICEFW areas
- Build and support integration with cross-workstream processes - SAP PP, EWM, MM, SAP MES system
- Support SAP Production system for ticket resolutions, business support needs, understanding product improvement opportunities
- Team player, ready to share and contribute to collective success of the team
- Manage a portfolio of projects related to SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) module from design to deployment including integration with Amazon Corporate systems
- Build deployment project plans and manage risks impacting successful delivery
- Develop use cases by gathering business requirements, work with software development to build required features, clearly communicate dependencies and manage/track exceptions
- Participate and build Proof of Concepts (POCs) to ensure proposed solution can meet business requirements using SAP S/4
- Active participation in Unit Test, System Integration Test, User Acceptance Test, and User Training
- Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for designing, developing, and testing SAP S/4 HANA ERP functionality, which includes expertise in general ledger, accounts payable, project system, cost center accounting, product cost controlling and profit center accounting
- Configure SAP S/4 HANA FICO to meet business requirements, including connection points with PP, MM, PS, & SD and other modules and implementation of SAP best practices
- Have an ability to navigate through a large amount of ambiguity and drive consensus between cross-functional stakeholder groups
- Gather requirement from Finance, Accounting & Tax teams and Collaborate with other functional teams for HLD design and configure SAP to business requirement with validate & user trainings
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 8+ years of experience in SAP FICO, including Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO)
- 3+ years of experience leading teams or managing large-scale SAP Finance programs
- Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC in complex, production environments
- Strong expertise in core finance processes including GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Bank Accounting
- Experience with month-end and year-end close (Record-to-Report lifecycle)
- Deep understanding of Cost Centers, Projects/WBS, Profit Centers, Product Costing
- Experience delivering end-to-end finance transformations or ERP implementations
- Understanding of integration across MM, SD, and PP modules
- Experience in reconciliation, audit readiness, and issue resolution
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- MBA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent finance certification
- Experience leading SAP S/4HANA transformation programs
- Experience in SAP FI/CO configuration and solution design
- Knowledge of Material Ledger and advanced accounting
- Experience with external integrations (e.g., Oracle Project Accounting)
- Experience in large-scale or high-growth environments
- Familiarity with SAP Fiori, embedded analytics, or BI tools
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Company Overview
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://amazon.com.