ACCOUNTING
This accounting team provides support for Amazon's emerging products including Echo and Ring. This team also covers areas like Offline Retail.
What is the Devices and Services (DaS) Accounting team?
BU finance partners are embedded within these to provide financial guidance and decision support.
What are business lines / service teams?
Operations finance primarily partners with these on-the-ground leaders.
Who are fulfillment center (FC) managers / operations leaders / logistics teams?
All three tracks (BU, Ops, Accounting) roll up to this organization.
What is FGBS (Finance Global Business Services)?
This is Amazon's stock ticker symbol.
What is AMZN?
AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, and Channels are the four sub-teams that make up this accounting group, staffed in both the US and UK.
What is the Prime Video Accounting team?
This is the primary deliverable BU finance owns — a forward-looking view of revenue, costs, and profitability for their business.
What is the P&L (Profit & Loss) forecast?
This finance organization provides end-to-end financial oversight across North America's supply chain — fulfillment, sort centers, last-mile delivery, air, and fleet.
What is the NA Operations Finance (NACF Finance) team?
This Big 4 Firm audits Amazon's financial statements.
Who are external auditors (e.g., Ernst & Young)?
Amazon's fleet of custom electric delivery vans are made by this startup.
What is Rivian?
This accounting team leads the worldwide month-end close, manages the Chart of Accounts, coordinates close calendars, and owns corporate reporting allocations and Balance Sheet Reconciliation policy.
What is the Accounting Close Management team?
This finance team provides financial stewardship for Amazon's satellite internet initiative, organized into five sub-teams spanning FP&A, infrastructure, business operations, engineering, and government
What is the Amazon Leo Finance team?
This is the core metric Operations finance tracks to measure how efficiently the network delivers.
What is cost per unit (CPU) / cost per shipment?
Accounting teams ensure Amazon's books comply with these standards.
What are GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) / US GAAP?
Amazon has committed up to $33 billion in total investment into this AI company, making it one of the largest corporate AI bets in history.
What is Anthropic?
This accounting team oversees GAAP accounting for acquisitions, investments, warrants, and the Housing Equity Fund, advising on complex and subjective accounting treatments.
What is the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Accounting team?
This Controllership team supports a human-centered, technology-powered U.S. primary care organization, covering revenue, AP, payroll, procurement, treasury, and internal controls
What is the One Medical Finance team?
This region of the United States has the most Amazon fulfillment centers per capita.
What is Southern CA/ Inland Empire?
After the US Dollar, this foreign currency is most used within Amazon's global operations and public financial disclosures.
What is the EUR (Euro) ?
This Amazon segment consistently generates the highest operating margins despite being a smaller share of total revenue.
What is AWS?
This accounting team focuses on process optimization, automation, RPA, BI solutions, and project management to improve efficiency across Global Accounting and Finance.
What is the ATEAM? (Accounting, Tools, Entities, Automation, and Management Reporting)
Reporting to the CFO, this global finance organization provides enterprise-wide planning, analysis, and reporting — managing close, allocations, OP cycles, and S-Team reviews.
What is the Corporate FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) team?
When peak season or Prime Day volumes spike, Operations finance is responsible for this.
What is re-forecasting costs / variance analysis based on volume changes?
This was the starting year for the first ever AFRP cohort.
When was 2016?
Amazon famously prioritizes this financial metric over net income, and Jeff Bezos dedicated his first shareholder letter to explaining why.
What is Free Cash Flow?