AWS Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Central FP&A Team

Full Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Finance Analyst to join the Central FP&A team. The successful candidate will provide cross functional leadership across multiple teams and initiatives, and drive the overall Income statement reporting. This role will drive strategic initiatives to improve the quality and timelines of business insights provided to AWS and Amazon leadership, including ongoing efforts around existing process improvements.

We are looking for a consummate Finance leader who can thrive in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment, and who exercises high standards and good judgment. The successful candidate has strong leadership skills and business acumen and is comfortable at influencing stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Liaise across the AWS finance community to drive core financial processes including annual operating plans, monthly/quarterly business reviews and assessment of risks/opportunities, and month-end close.
• Collaborate with teams to simplify, standardize, and automate reporting processes and analytics.
• Communicate financial metrics and business drivers to AWS and Amazon teams.
• Ensure compliance with finance and accounting controls and systems.
• Lead and manage special projects, working cross-functionally with various AWS finance and business teams.
• Foster constructive and proactive communication across organizational boundaries.

About the team

This role is part of the AWS Central FP&A team. We support AWS leaders and finance teams by coordinating and consolidating deliverables, centralizing and standardizing processes, establishing financial controls and mechanisms, building tools that improve the speed of decision making, and providing insightful financial analysis on the short and long term strategy of AWS.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business 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)
• 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
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer, or experience as a lean sensei

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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

3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience