Brazil Senior Payroll Manager, LATAM Payroll Operations

Amazon is looking for a leader to join the fast paced world of LATAM Payroll Operations. We're not an average retailer and this is definitely not your average Payroll Management position. We'll give you the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by launching projects in a fast-paced environment and ultimately delivering results.

About Amazon

Amazon strives to be earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. We treat every day like day one: a day to bring in fresh ideas, a day to challenge convention, a day to make more good things happen for our customers. It's that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that will drive our success now, and reinforce our reputation for great service for years to come. You could be part of it. It's as simple as this: Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

About the role

Amazon is looking for an enthusiastic operational leader with excellent communication skills and a strong proven background in delivering diverse payroll products at the highest standards. The role is a fantastic opportunity for a leader who wants to lead teams to innovate and raise the bar for Brazilian and LATAM payroll operations and products.

This role will lead the Brazil and Portugal Payroll team located in Brazil and Costa Rica, with 20 Payroll Specialists and 2 Team Managers.

This position will be responsible for all aspects of the team's operations including: Strategic planning, continuous improvement, hiring and employee development; establishing priorities; local compliance; managing annual performance targets and operating budget; creating and monitoring appropriate performance metrics. This position will also act as an the main point of contact with local stakeholders. Overall responsible for Audit compliance and Business controls.

The role requires a candidate with ability to manage and improve the payroll operations (performance metrics, internal controls, compliance, automation…) as well as to manage regional projects. The candidate will interact with senior and executive stakeholders worldwide.

Your responsibilities:

• Secure accurately and timely payment to our customers with the highest Controllership and Compliance on every payment process for the country.
• Contributes to the strategic direction of the company and department based on internal and industry knowledge
• Responsible for developing, communicating and achieving team or department vision and goals
• Broaden learnings and best practices to other markets globally
• High level reviews to ensure team reports are consistently accurate, follow-up on correction of errors (COE) actions
• Build and monitor a consolidated Payroll Operations annual operating plan to forecast headcount needs with detailed analysis of budget to actual results
• Partner with external stakeholders HR, Tech, Legal, Employee Relations, Accounting, Treasury
• Partner with internal stakeholders Compliance, Controllership, Payroll Tech and Product Teams
• Responsible to develop and implement automation systems and improvement initiatives to support rapid growth
• Manages complex, departmental and/or cross-company work
• Build scalable processes to recruit, train and develop business professionals to support business expansion
• Lead performance review process

• Solid tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
• Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• Applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• Building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• Creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience

• Participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• Mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
• Working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making

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