Sr Financial Analyst, AWS Marketing Finance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketing Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to serve as a finance partner to senior marketing leaders across one of AWSs largest and fastest-growing investment areas. You will sit at the table with Directors and VPs advising on marketing investment decisions across digital demand generation events sports marketing and product marketing.

You will own the financial narrative for your business partners: translating complex spend data into clear recommendations challenging assumptions and driving action that improves how AWS allocates its marketing dollars.

Key job responsibilities
Partner directly with senior marketing leaders (Director/VP level) as their trusted finance advisor providing data and analysis driven recommendations on investment decisions across your portfolio.

Own monthly financial close variance analysis and quarterly forecasting for your business area. Proactively surface risks opportunities and recommendations.

Understand and partner with accounting & FP&A to drive an effective month-end close process.

Build and maintain financial models that drive investment decisions: scenario planning and ROI-informed budget allocation.

Translate financial data into the so what - present findings to senior stakeholders in language they can act on.

Build systems and automations that reduce administrative overhead and increase the speed of financial decision-making across the team.

Leverage SQL Python and AI tools to work with data at scale - speed and rigor matter equally.

Manage approvals purchase orders and budget controllership with accuracy and ownership.

A day in the life
Excel maybe your starting point but your goal is to drive data-driven decisions through influencing and partnering. Learning about the business is key - youll spend time understanding what marketing leaders are trying to achieve then bring financial perspective that sharpens their decisions. A typical week includes advising on spend decisions preparing investment narratives for senior reviews challenging forecast assumptions with data and ensuring financial controllership is tight. Youll work autonomously flag issues before they become problems and earn trust by consistently delivering insights that matter. Strong ownership of the P&L a bias for action and the ability to influence without authority are critical.

About the team
AWS Marketing Finance partners with CMO-direct leaders to drive ROI-informed investment decisions financial controllership and operational excellence across a global marketing organization. Our team values speed ownership and the ability to think like a business owner.

- Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science) or Bachelors degree and 4 years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- 3 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 3 years of identifying leading and executing opportunities to improve automate standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- 3 years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 3 years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) experience.

- 4 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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)
- MBA or CPA
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 82700.00 - 117100.00 USD annually