Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Platform Finance

Description

Before applying for this role, please read the following information about this opportunity found below.

Are you looking for your next big opportunity? Want a high-visibility finance role directly influencing the future of a successful cloud computing business?

Please join the AWS Finance team!

The AWS Platform organization needs a finance professional to provide planning and analysis. This group of teams impacts nearly all AWS businesses.

This role will partner with this customer-focused group of business to work on challenging and time-sensitive needs.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities

AWS Finance seeks a world-class Senior Financial Analyst. This position works closely with senior business partners and finance professionals at all levels to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership on AWS’s products.

Key responsibilities include :

• Influencing business partner decisions through education and collaboration on marginal costs, pricing, customer adoption, etc.
• Collaborating with business partners to build and maintain detailed cost models by product / service
• Driving the financial planning / budgeting activities
• Preparing and providing financial reporting including communicating future financial risks and opportunities to the business
• Developing and standardizing financial reporting
• Working on ad hoc financial analyses and projects

A successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business. Additional responsibilities include helping refine the capacity planning processes and modeling improvements to help drive positive Free Cash Flow.

This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem-solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management.

This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong people skills.

About The Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a pioneer in blazing the new trails of cloud computing. AWS is a high-growth, fast-moving group within Amazon with a start-up mentality where new and diverse challenges arise every day, but a group that operates with the full backing of one of the world’s most successful web companies.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Chicago, IL, USA Dallas, TX, USA 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

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 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)
• MBA or CPA
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

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.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID : A2673066

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