Amazon
Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS Finance, AWS 3P Developer Finance
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Seattle, Washington, USA
1d ago
Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business partnering role with full P&L responsibility? 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.
AWS Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support AWS Third Party Developer Services (3PDS), a portfolio of services that occupy the middle layer in a software stack - providing services for 3P Developers (AWS Customers) to build their end applications). This position will work closely with senior finance management and key business partners to drive product/service pricing, cost and capital expenditure optimization, financial planning, decision support, and controllership.
Key job responsibilities
- Support AWS IoT P&Ls and influence business decisions that drive revenue and/or capital expenditures
- Take the lead in financial planning and analysis; build and maintain complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance, including short and long range financial/operational forecasts, and communicate results to senior management
- Support modeling efforts for pricing decisions and cost savings initiatives
- Maintain controllership of the business: ensure all financial fundamentals are correct and accurate, such as billing, cost allocation, and financial presentation
- Analyze new business ideas, make analytical judgments, and provide data intensive analyses to drive meaningful change
A day in the life
A typical day in 3PDS Finance will include a number of activities such as:
- Presenting a document you prepared on your services' AWS infrastructure spending where you have segmented costs and pointed out variances from expectation that represent opportunity. You have found one particular item that looks promising and have calculated cost savings from a hypothetical 10% reduction in usage.
- You are preparing monthly financial review document for your service and notice a large amount of usage and revenue coming from a new customer. You engage Product Management to understand the customer's use case and see if this represents a new opportunity with similar customers.
About the team
3P Developer Services Finance is a team of dedicated professionals who provide analytical and controllership support for a key AWS investment area. - 3+ 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)
- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 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)
- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience- MBA, or CPA
- Bachelor's degree in BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.