FinOps Specialist – AP, Finance & Accounting, Vendor Maintenance – AP

Job Description

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DESCRIPTION:
Job summary
Amazon is looking for FinOps Specialist to join our AP Vendor maintenance Team focusing on Vendor record keeping, fraud monitoring, tickets resolution, Modifying vendor records , Escalation management, tracking of On -holds and Off holds, Validation of documents shared by vendor, Bad actor identification, Reducing manual activities and defect reduction. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, has excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and is always driving for solutions, without compromising accuracy. The candidate needs to have excellent prioritization, communication and organization skills and is able to work independently.

As a Finance specialist for AP Vendor maintenance , you will dive deep into the system to understand Vendor on boarding process, payments process, bank information and invoice data and classification per business needs, in order to identify vendor record keeping issues and root causes. You will play a key part in understanding, analyzing and improving the different reasons behind a Fraud vendors and manual updates , issues with self serve portals, payment delays and support to build a robust logic to identify areas of improvement as well as prevention on future issues.

Responsibilities:

Perform root cause analyses on vendor and invoice level.
Identify, analyze and resolve issues related to payment delays or variances. Support vendor account modifications, vendor fraud inquiries, document validations and investigations with data analyses and reporting.
Contribute to metrics and reporting.
Interaction with internal stakeholders, vendor managers, financial communication partners, business partners.
Support with transactional work (reports, queries, etc).

Key job responsibilities
Perform root cause analyses on vendor and invoice level. Identify, analyze and resolve issues related to payment delays or variances. Support vendor account modifications, vendor fraud inquiries, document validations and investigations with data analyses and reporting.
Contribute to metrics and reporting.
Interaction with internal stakeholders, vendor managers, financial communication partners, business partners.
Support with transactional work (reports, queries, etc).

A day in the life
Perform root cause analyses on vendor and invoice level.
Identify, analyze and resolve issues related to payment delays or variances. Support vendor account modifications, vendor fraud inquiries, document validations and investigations with data analyses and reporting.
Contribute to metrics and reporting.
Interaction with internal stakeholders, vendor managers, financial communication partners, business partners.
Support with transactional work (reports, queries, etc).
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
– 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
– 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
– 1+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
– Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
– Experience using data to influence business decisions
– Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
– 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
– Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL

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