Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Capacity Finance Team

About the role

The Senior Financial Analyst will provide cross-functional support across multiple teams and initiatives, developing key financial models and insights required by senior leadership to inform long-term strategic investment decisions regarding Services capacity planning and capex.

Responsibilities

• Provide cross-functional support across multiple teams and initiatives, developing key financial models and insights required by senior leadership to inform long-term strategic investment decisions regarding Services capacity planning and capex.
• Help drive better visibility and insight into the success and efficiency of all Service businesses.
• Own the AWS Services capex month-end process, working with teams to reduce complexity and drive systemic automation and creating new tools and mechanisms that lead to more informed decision making from Services.
• Work collaboratively with various finance, business and tech partners, be comfortable in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous, results-oriented environment, influence the decisions of business and financial leadership through verbal and written communication, and have high standards for accuracy, logical reasoning skills, and strategic thinking.

Requirements

• 3+ 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 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: 3+ 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 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience, Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence, 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience, 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• Preferred Qualifications: 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience, MBA, or CPA, Knowledge of Tableau, 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), 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience, 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience, 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Benefits

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.