Finance Manager II - Payroll Payments & Audits, Payroll

Finance Manager II – Global Payroll Payments | APAC & North America Make Payroll Payments Work at Global Scale How do you ensure that millions of employees across multiple countries are paid accurately, securely, and on time? Join Amazon's Global Payroll Payments team as a Finance Manager II, where you will lead the critical payment layer that connects payroll operations, banking partners, technology teams, and financial controls across APAC and North America. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of Finance, Payments, Banking, Technology, Risk, and Operations. You will own the end-to-end payroll payment lifecycle across multiple markets, lead a team responsible for critical payment controls and audits, manage strategic relationships with banking partners, and drive the modernization of payment infrastructure. You will also play a key role in enabling new country and entity launches, adopting modern payment standards such as ISO 20022 and API-based integrations, strengthening controls, and using automation and AI-enabled solutions to simplify and scale payment operations. If you enjoy solving complex problems, operating at scale, building high-performing teams, and transforming finance processes through technology, this role offers an opportunity to make a direct impact on the employee payment experience across multiple geographies. Why This Role Stands Out Global ownership: Lead payroll payment operations across APAC and North America. High-impact infrastructure: Influence payment mechanisms that support employee payroll at significant scale. Banking exposure: Build strategic relationships with major banking partners and payment service providers. Transformation mandate: Drive automation, API-based integrations, ISO 20022 adoption, and process modernization. Leadership opportunity: Develop a team responsible for critical audits, controls, reconciliations, and payment operations. New market launches: Lead payment infrastructure readiness for new entities and geographic expansions. Cross-functional influence: Partner with Finance, Payroll, Treasury, Technology, Compliance, Risk, and external banking partners. Problem-solving at scale: Own complex payment incidents and build mechanisms that prevent recurring failures.

The Global Payroll Payments team sits at the intersection of Payroll, Finance, Banking, Technology, and Operations. We are responsible for ensuring that payroll payments move securely, accurately, and reliably from payroll processing through banking networks to employees across multiple countries. Our work spans payment operations, banking relationships, financial controls, compliance, payment infrastructure, automation, and continuous improvement. Because payroll is a critical employee experience, the team's work requires a strong combination of operational discipline, financial ownership, technology awareness, and customer obsession.

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related field. Experience leading finance, payments, banking operations, payroll, controllership, or related financial operations teams. Experience managing and developing people. Experience working with banking partners, payment service providers, financial institutions, or payment technology teams. Experience managing operational controls, audits, reconciliations, risk, or compliance mechanisms. Experience using data and metrics to identify operational issues and drive process improvements. Experience working across multiple teams, geographies, or business functions.

Experience with payroll payments, payment operations, treasury, banking infrastructure, or financial technology. Experience managing payment infrastructure or banking setup for new countries, entities, or business launches. Knowledge of ISO 20022, payment file formats, APIs, banking connectivity, or payment modernization. Experience driving automation, digital