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Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager of Product Management for Selling Partner Financial Technologies○ Technical Product leader for Market Development Funds (MDF) product with $XXB of annual transactions. ○ End-to-end product ownership from idea inception, work backwards from customer needs, create engineering plan, present proposals to leadership, prioritize roadmap, and implementation of new features and products. ○ Led 3 year strategy planning and annual planning cycles for the organization in a resource constrained environment.○ Led 3 year product strategy to vastly simplify and automate the MDF agreement creation and management process to reduce defects impacting Retail vendors and internal stakeholders globally.○ Led annual roadmap planning exercise and presented proposal to senior leadership. ○ Collaborate closely with cross functional teams such as Accounting, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Product, Program, and Vendor Management leaders to achieve goals and meet regulatory requirements with the highest efficiency.○ Deal with ambiguity independently and balance long vs. short term trade-offs.○ Manage a team of 5 Senior Product Managers - Technical and support their career growth including performance management and promotions.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Senior Finance Manager for Selling Partner Financial Technologies○ Promoted to Senior Finance Manager and expanded team size from 4 to 18. ○ Single threaded leader managed multiple teams of finance professionals across different countries and functions for Business Intelligence Engineering, Business Partner, Controllership, FP&A, and Risk Management.○ Owned forecasting for multiple balance sheet accounts with an average monthly balance of $10B. ○ Led recruiting efforts for the parent organization by creating mechanisms to review resumes, phone screen and interview candidates in a manner consistent with Amazon’s best hiring practice. Also developed a training program for new interviewers to gain critical recruiting experience.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Finance partner for Customer Trust & Partner Support○ Single threaded controllership leader for Amazon Marketplace business with $300B sales globally. ○ Owned multiple key audit controls while optimized reconciliation process to increase accuracy, support business growth and changing regulatory needs.○ Managed a team of 4 financial analysts and an off-shore team of 8 risk analysts. ○ Chair for reviewing business launch requests with manual processes to ensure scalability and automation plan of $1B+ of transactions. ○ Partnered with Accounting, Compliance, Engineering, and Product to launch new businesses with precise ROI measurements and management reporting mechanisms.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: P&L Controller for US Textbooks category○ Single threaded P&L controller for the US textbooks category.○ Owned Financial planning and analysis, annual strategic planning, weekly/monthly/quarter variance analysis, P&L and Balance Sheet forecasts, and ROI analytics. ○ Finance partner for Accounting and Finance Operations; which includes but not limited to reviewing monthly accruals, manual adjustments, evaluate impact of process changes, and help resolve vendor management impacting issues by collaborating with FinOps

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Finance partner for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support globally.○ Returned to US to become single-threaded finance leader globally for AWS Marketing, Premium Support, Customer Service, Public Sector Sales, and International Expansion.○ Worked directly with Adam Selipsky (AWS CEO) and Andy Jassy (Amazon CEO) to support leadership decision making.○ Led financial planning and analysis, annual strategic planning, budget and headcount management, P&L analytics, ROI measurements, pricing decisions, cost efficiency improvement efforts, month end close, sales commission controls, scalable process designs, approvals for contracts, purchase orders, customer concessions, and headcount.○ Also owned finance support for Accounts Receivables, Bad Debt, and Cost of Payments. Approved write-off requests, worked with Sales and customers to reduce delinquent payments and bad debt, collaborated with Accounting on improving AR reserve calculations, and forecasting.○ Managed 6 financial analysts and consultants.

Tokyo, Japan

JOB TITLE: Finance Operations Site Leader for Asia Pacific○ Transferred to Tokyo to become the Asia Pacific site leader for Accounts Payables.○ Responsible for end-to-end AP operations and projects for 10+ legal entities across 8+ countries.○ Transitioned operations from US to APAC to improve customer experience.○ Recruited and launched Japanese-speaking BPO team in China.○ Managed 20+ experienced analysts and managers in Tokyo and Beijing.○ Represented department for cross functional, diverse, company-wide projects such as safety czar, employee engagement survey, etc. with IT, FP&A, Facilities, Legal, HR, and etc.○ Performed self-assessment of internal controls and audited for noncompliance of company policies.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager, Finance Operations (FinOps)○ Promoted twice within 4 years. ○ Led all account payables supporting China and Japan for Retail, Corporate and Digital businesses.○ Increased scope and team size from 3 to 30 individual contributors and managers internationally.○ Worked cross functionally with Accounting, Finance, Legal, Retail, Tax and Tech for new business launches, process improvements, projects, systems integration and daily operations.○ Improved cost efficiencies via Kaizens and Business Process Outsource.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Manager, Support Engineering; Retail Systems○ Promoted from Individual Contributor to People Manager after 5 months.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JOB TITLE: Fraud Investigator; Transaction Risk Management Systems.○ Promoted to Fraud Investigation II after 8 months.