Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member in our AWS Industries Finance team. AWS Industries is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry.
As a Senior Financial Analyst you will work closely with business leaders to develop financial models and analytical insights to assist in evaluating new business concepts turning insights into operational measurements and identifying paths to improve the overall planning and forecasting process. You will also provide strategy support to the business team.
The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting strategic decision-making in a rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. As a business-facing finance partner this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive partnership at all levels of the organization.
Key job responsibilities
Present financial and business insights to senior management
Build financial models for revenue forecasting and sales productivity.
Tighten internal controls for travel and program spending
Provide strategic partnership to key business initiatives and investment
Analyze detailed customer revenue trends including AWS service adoption and cost optimization.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:
Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the top and the bottom line
Grow and collaborate across a wide network in a fast-paced environment
Being surrounded by inspiring and diverse talents across many different sectors and professional backgrounds
Ability to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral geographical or functional moves
- 3 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 3 years of quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering quality assurance) experience
- 4 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA or CPA
- 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 with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.