Sr. Financial Analyst - AWS Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Construction Finance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, WA · 1 wk ago
AccountingFull-time
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as part of the regional leadership team responsible for delivering high quality and robust decisions with favorable business outcomes.
- Become subject matter expert for data center construction including cost drivers, pertinent technology roadmap, vendors, and specific regional / macroeconomic nuances.
- Establish annual/monthly performance targets, analyze variances to plan, and communicate key messages to senior leadership.
- Own the process of identifying defects, waste or inefficiencies in finance processes, and drive corrective action for and process improvement / automation to eliminate these defects and enable efficient business scaling.
- Identify and lead data center construction cost savings initiatives.
- Approve/control data center capital expenditure.
- Drive automation initiatives leveraging GenAI tools
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)
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 2+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos or Essbase), SQL and Data warehouse
- 2+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- Experience working with multiple groups of stakeholders
- 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 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)