Cloud Infra Finance Strategist

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 118,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Sr Financial Analyst to join a startup-like environment supporting the Leo project. You will forecast, analyze, and report AWS and Leo infrastructure costs, develop models, and partner with engineering and business leaders to drive capital and Opex planning on a global scale.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in finance analytics, strong data skills (SQL/Essbase/Cognos), and the ability to influence decisions in a fast-changing environment across multiple business units.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience.
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience.
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field.
• Can meet export control requirements by being a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Finance subject matter expert of Amazon Leo cloud computing consumption.
• Develop strong working relationships with AWS Infrastructure and Services teams, and Leo business partners.
• Work across Amazon Leo to identify, quantify and forecast AWS usage (IMR) and Leo-specific AWS infrastructure costs (Capex) that support Leo on a global scale.
• Build complex financial models that estimate Leo cloud computing costs and requirements in support of negotiations with AWS and B2B prospective customers. Partner with key Leo business partners to assess and bring creative ideas to reduce cloud computing costs.
• Develop and implement metrics to monitor, report and evaluate forecasts and actual usage (AWS, external) and capex investments including recommendations to business leadership to drive efficiencies and spending improvements.
• Develop and deliver accurate Operating Plans and Guidance R&Os and bring creative ideas to drive out costs.
• Demonstrate an ability to manage competing priorities, work in an ambiguous business unit, and provide operations and investment guidance to the business partners based on data analysis.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.

Skills

Finance experience

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecasting

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance

Tools

SQL

Excel

Essbase

Cognos

SAP

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Sr Financial Analyst to join a startup-like environment supporting the Leo project. You will forecast, analyze, and report AWS and Leo infrastructure costs, develop models, and partner with engineering and business leaders to drive capital and Opex planning on a global scale.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in finance analytics, strong data skills (SQL/Essbase/Cognos), and the ability to influence decisions in a fast-changing environment across multiple business units.