Join the AWS Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team to play a pivotal role in influencing decision-making and planning at the highest levels of AWS Finance. In this role, you own responsibilities tied to revenue, operating margin and capex insights, partnering with stakeholders across services and sales business units to craft narratives about what's driving our business performance. You'll leverage your strong financial modeling skills and communication abilities to create compelling insights that influence our future success.
This position offers you a unique opportunity to understand the most important trends shaping the AWS business while modernizing our reporting functions through AI implementation. You'll create revamped models that improve the accuracy of planning cycles, work on interesting projects to generate new insights for sales and infra organizations, and help elevate the standards of our reporting processes. If you thrive in an environment that balances strategic influence with deep analytical work, this role will provide both challenge and reward.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders across AWS organizations to research technical, operational, and financial details to understand business drivers, develop insights, and represent this perspective in leadership discussions.
- Revamp and create financial models that improve the accuracy of planning cycles, applying economic principles to business decisions and operations.
- Own and deliver high-quality reporting (Monthly, Quarterly, Annual) that provides actionable insights for senior finance leaders across AWS.
- Create compelling narratives around business performance that help explain trends, forecast accuracy, and expectations to executive leadership.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with multiple stakeholders across different AWS organizations while effectively navigating competing priorities and adapting to changing situational demands.
A day in the life
Your day begins reviewing data and preparing updates for leadership. You'll spend time collaborating with partners across AWS FP&A teams to understand capex investment and operating margin dynamics and validate recent trends. Throughout the day, you'll work with finance peers improving financial models, incorporating AI tools to modernize reporting capabilities, and creating insightful analyses that explain business performance. You'll join meetings with senior finance leaders to present your insights and recommendations, and dedicate time to mentoring team members on best practices for reporting and analysis.
About the team
We are the Central FP&A team within AWS, owning everything related to the full P&L, free cash flow, and capex across short and long-term planning cycles. Our team is strategically positioned at the intersection of all AWS organizations, collaborating with finance teams across Sales, Services, and Infrastructure to tell the complete story of AWS business performance.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) 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)
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- 7+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
