Senior Financial Planning Specialist

3 weeks ago


Kuwait City, Al Asimah Amazon Full time

At Amazon, we're passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences and creating opportunities for talented professionals to grow their careers.

About the Role

We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Financial Analyst to join our Middle East and North Africa (MENA) team. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting Amazon's rapid expansions into emerging markets by providing controllership across Amazon.com.ae.

Your primary responsibility will be to own the end-to-end statutory reporting, audit process, and controllership for multiple entities across UAE, KSA, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and Lebanon. You'll partner with stakeholders across the global accounting, finance, and tax organization to drive process improvement and automation initiatives, support business expansion, review and understand financial performance, and assist in identifying standards for global consistency.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Leading annual financial statement preparation and audits across the region
  • Reviewing local GAAP financial reporting close
  • Supporting business expansion across the region, ensuring all statutory requirements are identified and supported
  • Business partnering with other Amazon teams, including FP&A, Tax, Transfer Pricing, Public Relations, and Business and Corporate Legal

You'll demonstrate strong technical accounting acumen to conclude on accounting treatment of new product launches, projects, and transactions. Additionally, you'll collaborate with global Accounting teams to identify, develop, and implement best practices that can be used globally.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 3+ years of controls/audit/compliance/SOX roles experience
  • 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
  • CPA*
  • UAE National with a family book
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience in accounting management in Big Four with Fortune 500 clients
  • Experience designing and implementing controls or performing audits over financial reporting environment
  • Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions
  • Experience creating process improvements with automation and analysis
  • Experience with Oracle, Essbase, TM1, and similar tools
  • Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
About Amazon

We're committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and valued. At Amazon, we believe that diversity drives innovation and creativity. We're an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.



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