Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Infrastructure Finance

Description

Do you want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Come join Amazon Web Services Finance! 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.

On the AWS Finance team you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously and you should too!

We provide end-to-end financial support driving AWS to be the low cost provider in Cloud computing and leader in customer experience. This includes supporting business owners in building, operating and innovating our Cloud datacenters.

We support operations, safety, security, business development, and engineering. You should be passionate about producing financial analysis enabling management to make breakthrough decisions, drive cash flow, and ultimately delight our customers.

Key job responsibilities

As a member of this team, you will work with Regional AWS (Business and Finance) leadership to:

- Serve as the key business partner working directly with AWS management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations

- Report weekly and monthly financial and operating metrics

- Manage the financial planning and month end close processes. Model, analyze and forecast metrics that drive budgeting, forecasting and business decisions

- Perform detailed NPV analysis in support of Strategic Initiatives and goals taken by finance and business teams. Support financial analysis for ad-hoc projects and as needed.

- Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives

- Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes to support the fast-growing AWS business

- Preparing detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies

- Identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement

A day in the life

- Work independently and self-motivate in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment

- Prioritizing workloads and partnering cross-functionally, while delivering against tight deadlines

- Developing/optimizing finance processes for speed, agility, and insight

- Dive deep on ambiguous challenges and deliver actionable insights

- Learn and be curious, deep diving complex business processes in a rapidly evolving and fast paced business environment

- Directly supervise teams and developing people

- Interact with financial systems such as Cognos TM1

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field 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

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Preferred Qualifications

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

- MBA, or CPA

- Knowledge of Tableau

- 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 creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

- Six Sigma Black Belt

- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

- Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer, or experience as a lean sensei

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