Principal, Accounting, AWS Infrastructure Accounting
Amazon - Arlington, Virginia, USA
Posted Mar 17, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
- 6 weeks From the posting source
- Non-birth-parent leave
- 6 weeks From the posting source
- Family-building benefits
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- Fertility benefits: Not verified
- Adoption assistance: Not verified
- Surrogacy assistance: Not verified
- Mental health support
- Not verified
- Relocation assistance
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- Childcare support
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- Learning budget
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- Verification
- Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026
- Salary
- $139K-$188K From the posting source
- 401(k) match
- Reported from DOL Form 5500 industry filing (not employer-specific)
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $106,409 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +7.7% - Faster than average
54% above the BLS role benchmark for finance aggregate.
Matched to SOC 13-2011 - Finance aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
Schedule
- Shift type
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- Weekend work
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Company
- Equity
- Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source
Application
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- Assessment
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- Deadline
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About this role
Principal, Accounting, AWS Infrastructure Accounting Arlington, Virginia, USA The AWS Infrastructure Accounting organization is seeking a highly motivated Accounting Principal to lead a high-performing team and serve as a key business partner on the AWS Accounting Team. This role is central to strengthening controllership across the organization, with primary responsibility for managing and developing scalable financial controls and processes that simplify monthly reviews, enhance controllership rigor, and enable sustainable growth. You will partner closely with finance, accounting, tech and business teams to develop long-term strategies and drive new initiatives that support our mission, while working with key stakeholders and central teams to drive global standardization of metric and reporting definitions. This position requires collaboration across organizations to define financial and non-financial trade-offs in ambiguous environments, ensuring robust financial governance and control frameworks are maintained throughout. Additionally, you will lead and develop an exceptional Accounting team while actively investing in Finance and Accounting citizenship opportunities across the organization. The right individual will have exceptional accounting skills, strong team leadership and people management capabilities, and solid business judgment capable of driving an organization to the right results. They will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment, and have the ability to lead and develop a team while influencing the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives. The successful candidate will collaborate with partner accounting teams across the US and work closely with business and financial systems teams to support
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