Associate Director of EU Accounting, Amazon
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
- Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
- Knowledge of GAAP research tools and the FASB codification
- Knowledge of HGB
- Professionally qualified accountant (CPA / WP / GC / ACCA / CIMA / ICAEW)
- Post-qualification industry experience
- You will be leading accounting for the Business fluency in both English and German
Desirable
- Effective interpersonal skills including persuasive written and oral communication to help you get your points across and build strong relationships with stakeholders
- Organizational skills, an ability to assess and manage risk, and the willingness to get into the details whilst also seeing and understanding the big picture
- Ability to deal with change and a pro-active can-do attitude will help you to keep up - Our business is always evolving and changing
- Ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams and stakeholders
What the job involves
- Based in Berlin, Audible is looking for an Associate Director, Accounting EU who will be responsible for the EU accounting activities and drive its processes, including financial closing, external audit, revenue calculation, royalties’ payment and other tax related requirements
- Moreover, you will champion and support key initiatives inside our Finance & Accounting team. Reporting to the Director, Accounting Europe based in London, you strive, supported by other EU based colleagues, for smooth processes and an excellent experience for internal and external stakeholders
- Lead the Accounting function, supporting all EU marketplaces as an approachable subject matter expert
- Take responsibility for month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing of financial books according to HGB and US-GAAP for Audible GmbH
- Be responsible for ensuring a robust control environment is maintained, including balance sheet reconciliations and analytics for a range of global stakeholders
- Supervise and continuously improve the completion of the annual statutory audit
- Continuously improve the recurring accounting processes (monthly close, tax declaration, account payable/receivable, etc.), together with the team
- Partner with the global business for Audible Accounting within the Audible and Amazon group, liaising with central Accounting, Tax and Legal departments
- Prepare tax declarations and other Accounting reporting
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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