Senior Financial Analyst, Platform Experience Finance Team

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst to own end-to-end finance support for AWS Identity and Cloud Governance. You will drive strategic feature launches and process improvements, partnering with multiple stakeholders to manage risk and opportunities.

The role requires a strong ability to communicate across a complex organization and manage time-sensitive deliverables, with emphasis on finance, planning and performance measurement across services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics or related analytical field.
• 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience.
• 3+ years of applying KPIs to analyses.
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to automate, standardize or simplify finance tools and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning; build complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance.
• Own end-to-end revenue creation and influence pipeline decisions.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements including automation and coordination with upstream and downstream organizations.
• Partner with finance, business, engineering and sales teams to standardize, streamline, and prioritize reporting.

Skills

Financial modeling

KPIs analysis

Process automation

Stakeholder partnership

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance/ accounting/economics

MBA or CPA

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst to be a key member of the AWS Platform - Identity and Cloud Governance. This role will own end to end finance support including P&L management and planning for AWS Identity and Cloud Governance services. Additionally, this role will drive strategic new feature launches and process improvements across the organization. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively, manage multiple and time sensitive deliverables across a highly complex organization, along with managing risks and identifying opportunities. The individual will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with multiple key stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

• Take the lead in financial planning; build complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance
• Owning the services end to end of revenue creation, and influence business decisions that drive pipeline creation and realization
• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements including automation and coordination with upstream and downstream organizations
• Partner with finance, business, engineering and sales teams across AWS to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field
• 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA
• 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)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually

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
• parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .