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Amazon AR Bankruptcy Analyst, Bankruptcy & Debt Recovery in San Jose, Costa Rica
Description
The CRET and Bankruptcy team is seeking a Bankruptcy Analyst with a strong AR and AP background to manage AWS bankruptcies for NAM, LATAM and APAC countries. The bankruptcy Analyst will be tasked with customer investigations, reporting, and reconciliations throughout the bankruptcy life cycle. To do so, this person will leverage a multitude of data points to investigate customers that have filed for bankruptcy protection and have a relationship with Amazon (AWS). The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with financial operations, accounting, legal/bankruptcy experience in NAM. The resource will work with outside counsel to provide requested information in order to protect Amazon's interests.
Key job responsibilities
This person will be responsible for the following:
Customer management throughout the bankruptcy life cycle, including a portfolio of customers in NAM, LATAM and APAC to collect balances accrued after the bankruptcy filing.
Reconciling and prorating statement of accounts.
Research and analysis across multiple systems and tools, including government sponsored court records websites.
Managing internal and external inquiries from cross functional teams including external legal partners.
Timely and accurate responses to questions and requests for information.
Auditing of records across systems for parity and completeness.
Collaborating with the Global Finance Operations team and internal business partners in NAM, LATAM, EMEA and APAC.
Timely publish reporting weekly/monthly.
Participate in operational excellence activities.
Analyze processes, recommend improvements
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
San Jose, CRI
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses 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
Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
Preferred Qualifications
4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
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)