Finance Manager, DC Operations, AWS Infra Finance

About the role

The Finance Manager will lead the finance work for a high-growth, specialized data center operations portfolio within AWS Infrastructure Finance. The portfolio is expanding rapidly, the operational model is still maturing, and the finance processes underneath it are being built in real time.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance business partner and thought leader for financial questions, scenario analysis, and planning support.
• Influence strategy, surface risks, and frame trade-offs before they escalate to leadership.
• Set and model standards for financial rigor, assumption documentation, and cross-functional communication.
• Own expense forecasting, planning, and reporting across operating expenses, headcount, vendor and contractor spend, and other key cost categories.
• Develop grounded forecasts with operations leaders and regional FP&A, ensuring portfolio impacts are reflected across planning submissions, monthly reviews, and leadership reporting.
• Deliver leadership-ready narratives explaining cost movements, forecast changes, and emerging risks.
• Build on the financial operating model for the portfolio, including cost frameworks, rate and volume drivers, and planning standards.
• Strengthen reporting mechanisms and ensure assumptions are traceable, consistent, and aligned across partner teams.
• Maintain the institutional knowledge base for resilience and auditability as the business scales.
• Identify and explain key cost drivers across labor, vendor, and other operating expense categories.
• Translate evolving operational inputs into financial impacts, options, and recommendations under ambiguity.
• Build scalable reporting and automation to reduce manual reconciliation and improve forecast reliability.

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)
• 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