Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Capacity Finance

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst for the EC2 & EBS Capacity Finance team. This role will focus on capital expenditure planning, variance analysis, and multi-year forecasting for EC2 and EBS capacity initiatives. The successful candidate will partner closely with execution teams, product management, and engineering to drive financial analysis and controllership across the business. This position requires strong financial modeling capabilities, analytical rigor, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while working across a highly matrixed organization.

A typical day involves diving deep into complex datasets to uncover insights about AWS capacity resource usage, collaborating with business leaders to identify efficiency opportunities, analyzing trends and developing recommendations to optimize resource allocation, participating in cross-functional meetings to present findings, building or enhancing financial models, and partnering with stakeholders to implement solutions that drive immediate business impact.

The team is a dedicated group of finance analysts focused on optimizing internal usage of AWS capacity resources, making broad, immediate impacts through data‑driven insights and recommendations, valuing collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and transforming complex data into actionable business strategies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain complex financial models and analytical tools to measure capacity utilization, usage trends, and overall financial performance.
• Produce and deliver weekly forecast reports and executive‑ready presentations, investigating data anomalies and communicating insights to leadership.
• Own and drive projects during planning and forecasting cycles, including cross‑functional coordination with engineering and operations teams.
• Develop, improve, and automate financial reports and data pipelines to increase accuracy and reduce manual effort.
• Participate in continuous capital analysis and capacity optimization initiatives.
• Own and deliver ad‑hoc business support projects and analytical deep‑dives as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re‑engineering, quality assurance) experience.
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of contributing to cross‑functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy.
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• 4+ years of contributing to cross‑functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy.
• 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).