Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Infrastructure Finance

Job Overview

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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 businesses 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.

• 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 as needed.
• Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives.
• Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and develop new processes to support the fast‑growing AWS business.
• Prepare 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.

• Work independently and self‑motivate in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Prioritize workloads and partner cross‑functionally, while delivering against tight deadlines.
• Develop/optimise 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 business environment.
• Directly supervise teams and develop people.
• Interact with financial systems such as Cognos TM1.

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy.
• 3+ years of contributing to cross‑functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or a Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of quantitative role experience.

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• 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.
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardise or simplify finance or business tools and…