Do you have a passion for partnering with operations to drive strategic business decisions Do you enjoy working across functions to develop recommendations based operational performance regional dynamics and macroeconomic trends Do you enjoy having a seat at the table for all matters that impact your business If so this is the role for you!
AWS Data Center Construction Finance seeks a resultsoriented Senior Financial Analyst to partner with our construction teams to deliver data center capacity for our customers ontime and on budget. The successful candidate will work closely with a variety of stakeholders across functions (construction engineering program managers supply chain data center operations other finance teams) to drive projects and initiatives where they can demonstrate their strong judgment and leadership. This role requires a selfstarter who can leverage their analytical skills and attention to detail to drive the business while maintaining financial controllership. This role also has regular interaction with senior business partners therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
Serve as part of the regional leadership team responsible for delivering high quality and robust decisions with favorable business outcomes.
Become subject matter expert for data center construction including cost drivers pertinent technology vendors customers served and regional nuances.
Establish annual/monthly performance targets analyze variances to plan and communicate key messages to senior leadership.
Pinpoint defects or waste in processes and drive new processes and automation to eliminate the defects and prevent them from recurring.
Identify and lead cost savings initiatives.
Data center capital expenditure approvals.
Support forecasting and month end activities across the team and specific regions
Identify opportunities to improve on the tools and processes to support finance team and our business partners
Bachelors degree in engineering statistics or business or a Bachelors degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering process reengineering quality assurance)
Experience in tax finance or a related analytical field
Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
Experience in identifying leading and executing opportunities to improve automate standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
Experience working with stakeholders
MBA or CPA
Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
Experience working with largescale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL MS Access Essbase Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle SAP Lawson JD Edwards)
Knowledge of Tableau
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