Senior Accountant, Amazon Health

Amazon Health provides diverse customer offerings including primary care and online pharmacy services. The business operates as a start-up and is actively striving to grow and reinvent the customer healthcare experience. The Amazon Health Accounting team is seeking a Senior Accountant to support the accounting for its dynamic and growing health offerings. This role will work across Amazon Health to lead management of various aspects of accounting month-end close, controllership initiatives, and new projects. If you are a financial accounting professional who consistently exceeds expectations, who dares to make bold decisions, and whose ears perk up at the prospect of a challenge, then Amazon is a place where your career can flourish.

Key job responsibilities
• Supporting various aspects of our accounting and reporting process.
• Understanding accounting and financial principles and how to apply them.
• Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.
• Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Analysis of complex processes and systems data.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boston, MA, USA

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of Fortune 500 operational accounting experience
- CPA
- Knowledge of internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency
- Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
- Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
- Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions

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