Amazon

Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS Startups

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

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in tax, finance, or an analytical field.
  • 4+ years using key financial performance indicators in analyses.
  • 4+ years of process improvement experience with automation.
  • 4+ years in identifying and executing opportunities to enhance finance tools and processes.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics, or business.
  • Advanced SQL skills for data mining and business intelligence insights.
  • 3+ years analyzing financial data to identify business strategy patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Lead stakeholder collaboration to define and implement solutions.
  • Conduct business reviews to drive accountability and maintain high standards.
  • Manage bottlenecks and trade-offs between business needs and technical constraints.
  • Encourage proactive communication across organizational departments.
  • Foster teamwork and commitment among groups with competing priorities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) matching to help with retirement planning.
  • Paid time off to ensure work-life balance.
  • Parental leave to support family needs.
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement options.
Full Job Description
AWS Finance seeks a Sr. Financial Analyst to support the GenAI team within the Startup Sales organization. This role provides leadership and strategic support including key project analyses, metrics development and reporting, planning and forecasting. The successful candidate will be able to think strategically, tactically, and analytically. They will have a demonstrated ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, financial analysis, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives.

The candidate will be responsible for developing tools and instrumentation necessary to address business opportunities, creating analytics to measure the effectiveness of business strategies as well as setting strategy, direction and prioritization for team. The role requires a self-starter who will operate with significant autonomy while supporting senior business leaders and delivering results.

Key Responsibilities Include:

- Collaborative interaction with stakeholders at multiple levels and lead teams to define and deliver solutions.

- Drive business reviews and create mechanisms that promote accountability and high standards.

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical and process constraints.

- Foster constructive and proactive communication across organizational boundaries.

- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple groups with competing priorities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

- 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

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

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

- 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

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

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Amazon Careers

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