Accounting Manager, Prime Video Accounting

Description

Come help shape the future of Amazon Prime Video, a premier global streaming service featuring over 25,000 movies and TV shows, award-winning original content, and licensed programming from the world's largest studios. With over 200 million subscribers worldwide, Prime Video continues to expand its reach through innovative subscription models, transactional offerings, and ad-supported content. The Prime Video Accounting organization is seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager to lead a global, multi-site accounting team and serve as a key business partner on the Digital Accounting Team. This role encompasses the full breadth of Prime Video's monetization portfolio and associated content royalties, including all subscription products, third-party channels, transactional video on demand, ad-supported content, and self-service content licensing.

The right individual will have exceptional accounting skills and solid business judgment capable of driving an organization to the right results. They will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment, and have the ability to lead and develop a team while influencing the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives. The successful candidate will collaborate with partner accounting teams in both London and Singapore and work closely with global business and financial systems teams to support new launches and design and deliver high-impact AI initiatives and productivity improvements. They must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically while building and mentoring a high-performing accounting team.

Key job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Leading a Seattle-based team in delivering accurate and comprehensive financial reporting for the largest territories in our global SVOD content portfolio (US and LATAM). Serving as the primary point of contact for SVOD accounting across the US region while reporting to UK-based leadership the candidate will need to act as an independent team leader and interact directly with senior accounting leadership

• Partnering with business, accounting, finance, and tax stakeholders to ensure seamless coordination and compliance

• Owning critical financial reporting deliverables, including 10-K and 10-Q disclosures, and present key findings to Digital senior accounting leadership

• Drive the design and implementation of SVOD AI automation solutions and operational improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and accuracy across accounting processes

• Collaborate closely with the content acquisition teams to evaluate new contracts and their accounting implications, demonstrating strong judgment and backbone by independently championing accounting controllership considerations in new business terms and launches

• Prepare technical accounting memos under US GAAP for digital content contracts, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies

• Lead cross-functional project work across the broader Digital organization, including process improvement initiatives for existing processes and controls, and integration of accounting processes with Amazon systems and policies

• Coordinate quarterly reviews and approvals of estimates related to the digital business, presenting conclusions and recommendations to the Digital senior accounting leadership team

• Execute quarterly reviews and sign-offs on SOX 404 key controls associated with the group's digital business, ensuring robust internal control frameworks

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

Preferred Qualifications

• CMA or CPA, or MBA in finance, accounting or related field

• Experience developing and managing a high-performing team

• Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan, or experience communicating results to senior leadership

• Experience analyzing data and creating reports for leadership

• Experience in preparing and/or reviewing 10Q/10K reporting deliverables

• • Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at .

USA, CA, Culver City - 139,100.00 - 188,200.00 USD annually

USA, MA, Boston - 139,100.00 - 188,200.00 USD annually

USA, OR, Portland - 139,100.00 - 188,200.00 USD annually

USA, TN, Nashville - 125,200.00 - 169,400.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 139,100.00 - 188,200.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 139,100.00 - 188,200.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 139,100.00 - 188,200.00 USD annually