Amazon

Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Infrastructure Finance

Amazon$82K — $117K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in tax, finance, or analytical roles
  • Experience in analyzing financial data to support business strategies
  • Contributed to cross-functional initiatives aimed at enhancing financial performance
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related quantitative field
  • Preferred: 4+ years of experience in continuous improvement projects
  • Preferred: MBA or CPA
  • Preferred: Knowledge of Tableau and large data mining tools like SQL and Oracle

Responsibilities

  • Act as a key business partner providing financial recommendations to AWS management
  • Report detailed financial and operational metrics on a weekly and monthly basis
  • Manage the financial planning and month-end close processes, along with budgeting and forecasting
  • Conduct detailed NPV analysis to support strategic financial initiatives
  • Analyze business results to derive actionable insights and achieve objectives
  • Ensure compliance with financial controls and develop processes for AWS's growth
  • Lead automation and process improvement projects to enhance operational efficiency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
  • Mental health support services
  • Employee assistance program
Full Job Description
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)

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, VA, Herndon - 66,900.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually

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