Finance Manager, EMEA Data Center Finance team

This Finance Manager role sits within the Data Center Global Services Finance team in Dublin supporting the full lifecycle of AWSs data centre capacity from procurement and supply chain through to construction and design engineering. Youll provide end-to-end financial analysis that directly informs how AWS builds and scales its global infrastructure partnering with operations business development and engineering leaders to drive cost efficiency and cash flow across a multi-billion dollar portfolio of programmes.

The Data Center Global Services team is responsible for designing and delivering data centre capacity this role youll act as a key finance partner to AWS senior management producing financial planning forecasting and performance reporting on a weekly monthly and annual cadence. Your analysis will feed directly into decisions on where and how AWS invests in new infrastructure identifying cost savings through vendor benchmarking procurement strategy and cross-locale comparison. Youll build and implement long-term forecasting models lead financial reviews and work across finance construction IT and design teams on cost reduction automation and process improvement initiatives. This is a role with clear line of sight between your output and the strategic direction of one of the fastest-growing areas of AWS.

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Key job responsibilities
- Serve as the key business partner working directly with AWS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations
- Drive cost savings by identifying opportunities and benchmarking across vendors and locales.
- Manage the financial planning and analysis effort and forecast various metrics for financial risks and opportunities.
- Report on the financial performance and lead in the preparation of weekly monthly and annual financial reviews
- Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to AWS senior management
- Monitoring compliance with controls and systems and developing new processes and controls to support the fast-growing global AWS business
- Partner with Procurement supply chain and project management teams to drive costs out through negotiations and strategy
- Implement long-term forecasting models.
- Work across teams on cost savings projects automation and improvement initiatives with finance construction IT and design; Conduct regular face to face and virtual meetings in the region to support business partners and drive further efficiencies.

- Experience delivering forecasting budgeting and variance analysis and data interpretation of results or experience in 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 applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience using complex modeling and analysis to inform key business decisions
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting or related field
- Experience in commercial finance business partnering or FP&A (at multinational organisation.)

- MBA or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
- Experience in 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 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)

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