3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
The Amazon Prime Video team is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. The Original Content group focuses on ensuring we invest in the most promising original content for our customers and invent and implement policies and procedures to protect the investment of Amazon in original content. We are seeking to fill a Production Finance executive to be a key leader for Amazon's Latin America Digital Video team to manage the original content production in Mexico.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Support LatAm Production Finance team, providing weekly reports with updates on the production finance status, PO, Funding, and relevant information.
- Serve as main point of contact between multiple original television productions and Amazon Studios finance team
- Partner with other members of the Prime Video LatAm team and third party local production services companies
- Review production budgets, cost reports, trial balances and petty cash reconciliations prepared by show accountants
- Hire talented production accounting teams with the skill set to provide the highest level of production accounting support on shows that are both ambitious and complex
- Work with show accountants on a day to day basis to drive accurate, complete and timely cost reporting, protecting and managing show assets and supporting production
- Collaborate with Line Producers, Production Managers, Production Accounting Staff and the Amazon Production team to prepare all financial reports, ensure proper reconciliation of accounts, and ensure production's cash flow and payment needs are met
- Work closely and collaboratively with Amazon Studios' teams including Legal, Tax, Business Affairs, Production, Finance and Accounting
- Manage production incentive workflow and ensure receipt of tax credits or cash. Manage cash flow and funding processes
- Develop/improve financial reporting processes, controls, and policies
- Create and drive innovative solutions that will enable the finance org to maintain effective controllership in a high growth business
This role will be based in Mexico City, MX
Key job responsibilities
- Support LatAm Production Finance team, providing weekly reports with updates on the production finance status, PO, Funding, and relevant information.
- Serve as main point of contact between multiple original television productions and Amazon Studios finance team
- Partner with other members of the Prime Video LatAm team and third party local production services companies
- Review production budgets, cost reports, trial balances and petty cash reconciliations prepared by show accountants
- Work with show accountants on a day to day basis to drive accurate, complete and timely cost reporting, protecting and managing show assets and supporting production
- Collaborate with Line Producers, Production Managers, Production Accounting Staff and the Amazon Production team to prepare all financial reports, ensure proper reconciliation of accounts, and ensure production's cash flow and payment needs are met
- Work closely and collaboratively with Amazon Studios' teams including Legal, Tax, Business Affairs, Production, Finance and Accounting
- Manage production incentive workflow and ensure receipt of tax credits or cash. Manage cash flow and funding processes
- Develop/improve financial reporting processes, controls, and policies
- Create and drive innovative solutions that will enable the finance org to maintain effective controllership in a high growth business
Mexico City, DIF, MEX
- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)