Sr. Financial Analyst, Partner & Strategy Finance

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This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organization within Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS Specialists and Partners Organization (ASP) is a force multiplier for AWS’s customer reach and allows AWS to win more deals, faster. We're seeking an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to join the Partner Growth & Strategy (PG&S) Finance team. We are laying the foundations for success by implementing the right mechanisms, inspections points and financial influence to lead to the best outcomes.

This is a business partner facing role, and the right candidate will need to possess a balance of technical skills and soft skills – the ability to influence seasoned business leader with strong judgement and robust recommendations grounded in data are critical for success.

This role has a lot of white space for an innovative and creative leader to build from scratch. It will help define the right models, tools, and mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, improve internal controls, and earn trust across the AWS Specialists and Partners Organization. This role will dive deep into the business drivers and use a data driven approach to influence business decisions with your findings.

We are looking for a leader who will raise the bar for their colleagues, helping establish best practices and drive a positive and engaging team culture.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated great attention to detail, a proven track record of building and improving complex financial models, effective written and verbal communication skills, and a strong desire to continuously learn and invent.

• Invent and automate detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health of strategic partnerships
• Review and evaluate program investments to measure partner level performance.
• Conduct cohort analysis to drive insights on what is working and what isn't across our largest partnerships
• Provide financial due diligence on proposed strategic agreements with key Partners, ensuring an acceptable return on investment (ROI)
• Build automated partner performance briefs for executive level meetings
• Deep Dive monthly & quarterly performance in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies
• Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments

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• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• 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)
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance…