Development Manager..Amazon-Hyderabad

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The Merchant Technologies division is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon. There are over 2.2 million merchants, ranging from students selling their text books to nation-wide retail chains, selling on Amazon’s international marketplaces. Collectively, these merchants are responsible for selling about 1/3rd of all items ordered from Amazon.com world-wide. The revenue and free cash flow generated by the M@ business are at the same proportions. This is an already-large business that is continuing to grow at a high rate year-over-year and we have several new initiatives that will further accelerate this trend. The technology platform is the cornerstone for our growth. The team is investing heavily in building a highly scalable global platform that can handle millions of transactions every month worth billions of dollars while maintaining buyer’s and seller’s trust on the platform. The team aspires to provide sellers with state-of-the-art tools for managing their inventory and orders and financial reporting.

Our Marketplace development team in Hyderabad, India focuses on building this platform. We are looking for a leader who is passionate about global development and building highly scalable and extensible platform. Specifically, the leader would be responsible for building a brand new registration platform that will be used to register 30+ different products and will be used to register millions of merchants worldwide. The leader will need to have strong focus on engineering excellence and performance metrics. The leader will be obsessed with developing high-performance teams through rigorous goal setting, disciplined attention to performance metrics, continuous process improvement, and mutual support and mentorship. He or she will also have very strong communication skills to bridge the gap between the Seattle and Hyderabad teams.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Leading highly talented technology teams responsible for building and owning complex services from India.

·         Delivery of highly available and highly reliable software.

·         Inculcate a culture of innovation and operational efficiency in the team.

·         Responsible for the direction of the new Registration platform.

·         Influence, collaborate and communicate effectively with various leaders in Amazon.

·         Hiring, growing and retaining a strong team keeping with the Amazon high bar.

Basic Qualifications:

·         A BS or MS degree in Computer Science is required with 9-12 years of experience managing distributed computing/server core software engineering teams.

·         Candidates must demonstrate proactive technical leadership, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a proven ability to multi-task and manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment.

·         A record of hiring of strong technical team members and leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:

·         The ideal candidate is a business and tech-savvy, analytical manager with a verifiable track record of managing and delivering enterprise projects on time and within budget.

·         Candidate must have a strong customer focus and excellent expectation management abilities.

·         Candidates must demonstrate proactive technical leadership, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a proven ability to multi-task and manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment.

·         A record of hiring of strong technical team members and leaders.

·         A BS or MS degree in Computer Science is required with 9-12 years of experience managing distributed computing/server core software engineering teams.

Sr.Development Manager..Amazon-Hyderabad

Amazon.com 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.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world. Amazon’s vision is to offer the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices to our customers.

Over 2MM Sellers in 9 countries (and growing) list their products for sale on the Amazon.com Marketplace. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. These Sellers offer hundreds of millions of unique SKUs providing a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics, Apparel to Consumables and beyond. Our business currently represents more than 1/3 of Amazon units sold, and is growing all the time.

The Marketplace organization drives the Selling on Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell to more than 150mm customers (and growing). These solutions include the software platform and applications that drive demand generation, customer acquisition, seller integration, customer relationship management, business analytics, and the inventory and order management functions necessary for sellers to manage their business online at Amazon.com.

Our team is made up of people like you. People who are: Entrepreneurial –We build solutions for all sellers, regardless of size. In fact, many of us are sellers ourselves. Innovative – Our problem space evolves every day due to scale, new categories and new geographies. There is no playbook for a Marketplace of this size, so innovation and creativity are a must. Passionate – We are passionate about our customers, both sellers and buyers. Everyone’s an owner at Amazon, and our team is no exception. Our business is growing fast and the pace is even faster. Leaders – We recognize the desire for people to lead, whether it is the development of a new feature or ownership of a new category. We invest in our team members, providing challenging roles with significant responsibility. Coaching and mentoring is taken seriously to ensure we continue to build a company we can be extremely proud of.

We are looking for a visionary technical leader to work on the Seller Services team to improve the Catalog Quality though automated machine learning methodologies. As this leader, you will combine your technical vision with business judgment in making decisions and guiding the teams. You will be the primary owner in building high-performance teams, driving innovation, technology roadmaps and delivery of customer-centric systems. You will be executing in a fast-paced environment, driving for results and continuous improvements in Seller experience.

Ideal Candidate:

• · Must be technically credible to lead teams of world-class software engineers and be able to make the right design decisions and technology choices
• · Deep understanding of overall systems development life cycle including various methodologies (agile, waterfall, iterative)
• · Experienced in developing the long-term strategy for technology platforms and that translate into an achievable roadmap
• · Experienced building and managing teams that designs and delivers scalable, extensible complex distributed systems.
• · Has managed remote development teams
• · Understands how to scope and justify resources and budget needs to senior leaders and finance partners
• · Knows how to effectively operate technology platforms which are highly reliable
• · Experience with open source technologies, object-oriented design, and agile development methodologies

Responsibilities:

• Build a Business and Ontology supported Operations team to train the machine learning system with relevant data
• Build and Manage high performing technical teams
• Fix the defects in catalog with machine learning techniques or by improving manual operations
• Use analytical influence over multiple departments, increasing their productivity and effectiveness to achieve strategic goals
• Work with Sellers, business managers, operations, software development, sales, account managers, legal and finance.
• Build and execute on new initiatives and roadmaps each year
• Work with the functional business leaders to build scalable processes and metrics
• Support network level excellence in six sigma and lean practices through designing and implementing systems, metrics, and programs that drive adoption and continuous improvement.
• Provide metrics inputs to various reporting decks; communicate key performance indicators to the Seller Services team in support of network objectives.
• Collaborate with counterparts in other functional areas in the company

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, Statistics or related discipline
• 10 + years Management experience in a retail, manufacturing, production or quality, distribution environment
• Ability to lead, teach and develop associates and managers to deliver key organizational goals.
• Cross-functional project management experience
• Process improvement experience via Six-Sigma and LEAN tools
• Experience using and communicating performance metrics
• Proven track record to creating and executing on highly effective quality processes
• Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow talented personnel in multiple locations
• Is innovative, can simplify, and has relentlessly high standards
• Maintains composure in the face of highly ambiguous environments and constant change

Thanks & Regards,

Sajithkumar Swaminathan

CSC Finance Controls Service Delivery Manager: CA first attempt female candidates for FMCG major (7-10 yrs)

CSC Finance Controls Service Delivery Manager: CA first attempt female candidates for FMCG major (7-10 yrs) 

Only female candidates from 4 Audit firms… CA First attempt or MBA finance from premiere institute.. travel – twice in a quarter for 7-14 days. Mail resumes to sajith @spectrumconsultants.com 

Incorporated in 1933 

Turnover: Around 21,736 crores for the period April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012 

People: Employees More than 16000 employees including over 1500 managers 

Parentage: part of the €44.3 billion Group 

Reach: Reach 6.4 million retail outlets which includes direct reach to over 2 million retail outlets 

R&D: Two R&D centres in India in Mumbai and Bangalore 

Job Position: CSC Finance Controls Service Delivery Manager 

Function: FINANCE 

Reports to: Global Operations Director – Financial Controls 

Scope: Country financial controls assessment 

Location: Bangalore 

The company's Enterprise Support (ES) is a new global business unit that will manage the company’s shared business services, made up of HR Services, Finance Transactions, IT services, Information Management Services and Workplace Services. 

Mission - To provide excellent services globally which enable Unilever to win in the market by 

- putting the business’ goals at the heart of what we do 

- leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs 

- making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our way of working 

- building a professional services organisation that enables our people to give their best 

- developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements 

The key benefits from ES are expected to be: 

- Lower cost of delivery through standardisation, simplification, process harmonisation & scale leverage. 

- Better user experience by delivery of integrated service bundles to end-user. 

- Continuous improvement through end-to-end process ownership. 

- It is currently undertaking the Effective Financial Control and Reporting (EFCR) project with an agenda to reduce the cost of control by € 50 mln (50% reduction). The agenda in controls is called Zero Based Controls (ZBC). As part of the ZBC project, a global governance model supporting the Unilever standards for access and financial process controls is being designed and having a common approach for managing user access to financial systems. 

- The agenda on controls will involve creation of a new service line under Enterprise Services called the Controls Service Centre (CSC), located in Bangalore. 

The new service line will have 3 key services 

1) Access Control 

2) Monitoring & Reporting 

3) Expert & Insight services. 

- This role is part of Expert & Insight services. This role will cover all aspects of controls that impact country operations - process control review, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), controls self assessment and financial audits. In summary, all country related control activities will happen ex CSC and this position will be the lead. Some of the key aspects of the role are: 

- Understanding of key financial processes and exposure to SOX/financial audits 

- Requires strong knowledge in SOX compliance. This person will be in charge of managing the SOX process for approx 70 entities 

- Unilever will be initiating a self assessment based Assurance process starting 1 Oct ’12. This will involve getting self assessments on controls from across +100 entities in Unilever 

- Going forward, all financial audits (approx 50) will happen at CSC and this position will be leading the process. 

- Be the lead for relationship management with the auditors an service providers for the approximately 15 validation audits in a year 

Main Accountabilities 

- Be the single point of contact for countries on all their control related matters – process controls in the area of R2R/P2P/O2C and M2D and also SOX, self assessments, audits etc 

- Define the governance mechanism with all stakeholders - business units, country co-ordinators and process owners on various control matters – SOX, audit, CSC assessments 

- Manage the deficiency reporting and tracking process; and verification of the corresponding remediation procedures 

- Co-ordinating with country and with various audit firms to ensure execution of plans 

- Drive relationship with 3P and identify continuous improvement opportunities 

Direct Reports

Key Interfaces 

- 1 WL1 Financial Control SOX Officer 

- Country Finance teams 

- Country Risk Managers 

- Controls Excellence Team 

- Service Providers 

- Procurement BP 

- Finance BP 

- HR BP 

Critical success Factors for the Job 

Key Skills

Relevant Experience 

- SOX - Detailed understanding of and experience in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, including internal control scoping, risk assessment, documentation, testing, summarisation of results, evaluation of effectiveness of internal controls and remediating control deficiencies. 

- Organisation Effectiveness - Inter personal skills to engage and effectively work with a wide variety of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds 

- Project Management – planning and coordination abilities 

- Leadership – Lead immediate and extended teams (3P service provider) and capable of setting and executing agenda independently 

- Communication skills – Fluent in written and spoken English 

- Masters degree in Accounting or Finance preferred – CA – we are looking only at CA’s and not MBA’s 

- Strong SOX compliance experience - Experience in designing and monitoring SOX compliance programs 

- Prior work experience in either a Big 4 accounting firm or in an assurance department of a large multinational organisation 

- 6+ years working experience 

Leadership Behaviours 

- Should "meet expectations" on the Standards of Leadership behaviours relevant to the WL of this job. 

Contact:- heymurali@gmail.com