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Amazon Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS Compute Finance in Seattle, Washington
Description
Elevate Your Finance Career at AWS
Are you a finance powerhouse looking to make a strategic impact? Seeking a dynamic business partnering role with full P&L ownership? Ready to shape the future of cloud computing's most successful products?
Join out Finance team and unlock your potential!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform.
AWS Finance seeks a world class Sr. Financial Analyst to support AWS Containers and Serverless Compute business.
This position will work with finance management and engage with business partners across the AWS organization, including product managers, engineering leaders, sales and business development leadership, and internal AWS teams to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership.
The successful candidate will propel financial insights and spearhead strategic initiatives to enhance financial reporting and customer experience.
Your mission will be to uncover data-driven business insights and enhance financial reporting to elevate the customer experience. This is an opportunity to flex your financial modeling expertise, problem-solving skills, and ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Key job responsibilities
Build and optimize P&L models, develop KPI dashboards, and lead ad-hoc analyses.
Drive planning, budgeting and related deliverables, and ensuring financial discipline and compliance.
Prepare financial metrics to measure efficacy of the services and standardize financial reports.
Anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze results and initiate corrective actions.
Provide controllership over headcount and costs of the business.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
3+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.