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DescriptionWe are Amazon s Finance Operations organization and responsible for Amazon s strategic customers Payables and Receivables. We are responsible for making on-time, accurate payments, billings and collections on behalf of North America Retail. We are seeking an Accounts Receivable (AR) Analyst that will work directly with our customers, upstream billing, sales and finance teams to coordinate on time collection of revenue. They will own the relationship with the customers and provide day to day support to enable timely payments. This position will lead efforts to dive deep into vendor payment data, drive process improvements, standardize processes, and eliminate root-cause defects within existing systems.This role is based in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.Primary responsibilities:Systemically intake, escalate, and triage vendor payments (payables and billings) contacts and issues and follow-through to resolution, including executive-level communication.Recognize escalation trends and identify underlying defects and root causes.Partner with and influence upstream and downstream teamsMeet or exceed monthly collections goalsLeverage data from numerous databases and internal tools (using Excel, SQL, or other data management systems) to perform reporting and analysis.Communicate directly with vendors to resolve invoice and billing discrepancies and ensure timely and accurate receivables.Work across US/Canada time zones as needed.Key job responsibilitiesSingle point of contact for all billing and collections related task for strategic Govt and Commercial customers for AWSUnderstand the end to end relationship with the customers and proactively manage past due balancesCreate statement of accounts, communication plans, SOPs for specific customer accountsReport collections related key metrics on daily, weekly and monthly basisCreate and share root cause analysis & write documents for dive deep sessionsEscalate to senior leadership key issues that could impact collectionsDeliver on multiple data requests and participate in process improvement workshopsManage highly ambiguous situations and communicate effectively with multiple stake holdersNOTE: This job is an in-office role (3+ days a week) and is non-negotiable.A day in the lifeThe Accounts Receivable Analyst would be assigned a portfolio of accounts.These accounts could belong to Government or Commercial line of businessDepending on the type of portfolio (Govt or Collections), analyst will be required to work on the entire 0-30, 30-60 and 90+ aged accountsAnalyst would be assigned a goal for each of the buckets and would be expected to meet or exceed the collections goal month over monthPerformance on collections would be considered Job 1 responsibilityAnalyst would also be expected to make process improvement, write documents explaining health of the accounts and build SOPs and training plansAnalyst would be responsible for reporting key metrics like, accounts worked, $ collected against goal and projected collectionsAnalyst would be required to update the notes and next steps in the collections tool and other places to track progressIf the collector/Analyst is working Govt portfolio, they would be required to review the claims in IPP, WAFF and make calls to Govt finance team to get status on billed claimsAbout the teamThis is a strategic team with highly skilled team members with high volumes, high ambiguity and high performance standards. The work location is in Arlington VA and team members are expected to work from office.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Arlington, VA, USABasic Qualifications1+ years of finance experience2+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experienceKnowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skillsExperience using data to influence business decisionsExperience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reportingPreferred Qualifications2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experienceExperience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQLAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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