Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Infrastructure Finance

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as the key business partner working directly with AWS management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations
• Report weekly and monthly financial and operating metrics
• Manage the financial planning and month end close processes. Model, analyze and forecast metrics that drive budgeting, forecasting and business decisions
• Perform detailed NPV analysis in support of Strategic Initiatives and goals taken by finance and business teams. Support financial analysis for ad-hoc projects and as needed.
• Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives
• Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes to support the fast-growing AWS business
• Prepare detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies
• Identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy 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

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
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer, or experience as a lean sensei