Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its Public Sector Sales Finance team. This role will be the lead for the Education and State & Local Government businesses and will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to support and drive these dynamic and fast-growing organizations. The candidate will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting top-line trends to monitor state of the business health deep-diving variances to uncover operating insights collaborating on strategic investment decisions to optimize financial returns establishing/enhancing governance mechanisms and driving planning and forecasting rhythms. Successful candidates will have a high degree of intellectual curiosity a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale the ability to influence senior stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills and the capacity to prioritize effectively while dealing with ambiguity.
Key job responsibilities Key responsibilities include: Collaborate with senior business stakeholders on revenue and strategy investment decisions that balance growth objectives with financial returns Invent and design scalable detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health Deep dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies Own planning and forecasting for the business and influence business stakeholders to ensure initiatives and any get to green plans are aligned with broader organizational objectives Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implications
- 5 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience - Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science) or Bachelors degree and 5 years of quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering quality assurance) experience
- MBA or CPA - 6 years of 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 - 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) - Experience delivering forecasting budgeting and variance analysis and data interpretation of results - 6 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses - 6 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making - 6 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis - 6 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
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