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Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS Sales and Services

Posted on: March 26, 2021 Apply Now
Seattle, WA Consumer Packaged Goods, TechnologyExpires May 2, 2021

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Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

  • BA/BS degree in business, finance or a related field and a minimum 5+ years of finance experience, OR master’s degree and 3+ years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business and finance partnering role with full P&L responsibility? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Join us at AWS Finance!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform.

AWS Finance seeks a world class Senior Financial Analyst to be a key leader supporting the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) business in revenue planning and analytics (Deal Discounts and Credits). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 has grown to be one of the fastest growing and most strategic suite of products in the AWS portfolio (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/). This role will also own end-to-end support for AWS Fault Injection Simulator (https://aws.amazon.com/fis/).

This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including product managers, engineering leaders, sales and business development leadership, and internal AWS teams to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership in the Amazon EC2 businesses.

The successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Service P&Ls, Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, identify and quantify financial/operational Risks and Opportunities (R&O) to the business, and drive ad-hoc business projects. This position will be responsible for revenue planning, customer analytics, financial reporting, and economic modelling for Amazon EC2 and AWS Fault Injection Simulator.

This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in people management and thought leadership. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong people skills.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Amazon EC2 product and sales management leadership team to develop a strategic roadmap for pricing and revenue growth

  • 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

  • Develop and evaluate new pricing constructs for the service

  • Provide deep analytics and communicate effectively to senior business team leaders

  • Take the lead in financial planning and analysis; building complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance, including short and long range financial/operational forecasts, and communicating results to senior management

  • Analyze new business ideas, make analytical judgments, and provide data intensive analyses to drive meaningful change

  • MBA preferred

  • Financial modeling, P&L management and/or analysis experience

  • Ability to understand multiple business dimensions and draw inferences by connecting various inputs.

  • Strong business partner experience; experienced in working with multiple stakeholders

  • Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills

  • Track record of managing deliverables from multiple parties to meet challenging deadlines

  • The ability to self-motivate in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment with competing deadlines

  • Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy

  • Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos or Essbase), SQL and Data warehouse

  • Customer focus

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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