Senior Financial Analyst, AWS EC2 Pricing Finance
About the role
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Finance seeks a world-class Senior Financial Analyst to be a key leader in its revenue planning and pricing finance team supporting the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) business. Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and is one of the fastest-growing and most strategic products in the AWS portfolio. You will partner with Amazon EC2 product and sales leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for pricing and revenue growth, lead pricing decisions, and drive adoption of new services.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Amazon EC2 product and sales management leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for pricing and revenue growth.
- Lead pricing for new services and ongoing pricing decisions for existing services.
- Develop plans and operational strategies for new initiatives to drive service adoption.
- Support new service/region launches; understand cost models and drive pricing decisions.
- Support the business P&Ls and influence business decisions that drive revenue and/or capital expenditures.
- Manage large customer deals; develop and evaluate new pricing constructs for the service.
- Provide deep analytics and communicate effectively to senior business team leaders.
- Analyze new business ideas, make analytical judgments, and provide data-intensive analyses to drive meaningful change.
- Work closely with finance management and key business partners across AWS, including product managers, engineering leaders, sales, and business development teams.
- Drive ad-hoc business projects and analyses, and contribute to usage and revenue planning.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or a Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience in a quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance).
- 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.
Skills
- Strong financial modeling background.
- Problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.
- Solid skills in people management and thought leadership.
- Strong interpersonal skills with regular interaction across AWS business units and senior leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or CPA.
- Knowledge of Tableau.
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence.
- Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer or as a lean sensei.
- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
Pay
Base salary range: $82,700.00 – $117,100.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
- Medical Advice Line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off and parental leave.
Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.