Finance Manager, AWS EC2 Pricing Finance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, WA · Yesterday
AccountingFull-time
About the role
Join the EC2 Pricing Finance team, where you'll shape pricing decisions for Core EC2 and AI workloads that power millions of businesses worldwide. This unique role goes beyond traditional finance, directly influencing pricing strategy, capital allocation, and infrastructure economics across GPU infrastructure, networking, and data center operations.
Responsibilities
- Analyze infrastructure cost trends and evaluate pricing impacts across Core EC2 and AI workloads, building complex financial models that inform strategic pricing decisions and investment scenarios
- Partner with Product, Service Finance, and engineering teams to develop and enhance marginal cost models, pricing methodologies, and automated processes that support evolving market conditions
- Lead financial analysis and recommendations for large-scale customer negotiations and deals, synthesizing complex datasets into clear insights that influence multi-billion dollar business decisions
- Support executive leadership reviews by preparing strategic materials, conducting pricing and margin tradeoff analyses, and communicating complex technical and financial concepts to senior stakeholders
- Drive process improvements and innovation in pricing finance mechanisms, collaborating across Finance, Deal Desk, Supply Chain, and Infrastructure teams to enhance accuracy and efficiency of EC2 pricing models
Qualifications
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 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
- 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)
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.