Finance Manager, Partnership & Co-Innovation Team

Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and become a part of one of the most dynamic and fastest growing organizations s role will work closely with business and finance stakeholders within the Partner Organization. We're seeking a Finance Manager to join a rapidly growing AWS organization. This is a unique opportunity to support a centralized business development team that manages strategic partnerships across all of Amazon.

The candidate will be responsible for developing and enhancing deal assessment models, tooling, and the buildout of deal tracking mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, improve internal controls, and earn trust across AWS Partner Organization. This role will dive deep into the business drivers and use a data driven approach to influence business decisions with your findings. This candidate will be responsible for providing cross functional leadership and initiatives, including across other finance and operations teams within the organization.

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.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Perform various ad hoc analyses to help business leaders solve business problems and understand the financial implications

• Build rhythm of the business processes that deliver ongoing insights and support day-to-day decision making

• Evaluate and refine deal investment models

• Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and develop new processes and controls as needed to support internal and external financial reporting requirements

• Support planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for opex, contra revenue and working capital

• Simplify and automate processes and reports within APO

Key job responsibilities

• Translating long-range company goals into strategic financial plans; partnering with internal stakeholders to reach milestones and assure financial alignment on plans.

• Owns planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for APO headcount, OpEx, contra revenue and working capital.

• Leading and coordinating with internal finance teams to implement KPIs & reporting.

• Perform various ad hoc analyses to help business leaders solve business problems and understand the financial implications.

• Able to discuss and present financial results to an audience of senior leaders.

• Exercise considerable creativity, foresight and judgement in conceiving, planning and delivering initiatives.

• Build rhythm of the business processes that deliver ongoing insights and support day-to-day decision making.

• Evaluate and refine financial models that calculate partner profitability.

• Monitors performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance to support internal and external financial reporting requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience

• 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience

• MBA, or CPA

• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making

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