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 macro-economic 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 results-oriented Senior Financial Analyst to partner with our Business Development Construction and Design Engineering teams to deliver data center capacity for our customers on-time and on budget.
The successful candidate will work closely with a variety of stakeholders across functions (data center procurement business development / real estate 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 self-starter 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 development and 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
A day in the life
Reviewing business development proposals and converting deal requirements into financial models to help reviewing its performance vs benchmarks and vs goals. Be able to dive deep into deal specifics to help business identify commercial opportunities to reduce overall cost of deployment and better use of AWS assets.
Learn understand and challenge design decisions and seek best in class financial support for our business partners to determine design plans for upcoming project.
About the team
Our team is a high impact finance unit which supports EMEA leaders in delivering lowest cost of data center capacity for our customers. We help business to make the best decisions for our customers and to never constrain our business to serve our clients.
- Bachelors degree in engineering statistics or business or a Bachelors degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering 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 with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- MBA or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- 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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