Finance Manager, AWS Database Services

$85,900 - $179,500/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

1,001-5,000 employees

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About the position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Finance Manager for a high-growth service team. This role will own end-to-end finance support including P&L management, operational and financial planning, customer analyses, strategic growth analyses, and new feature pricing/modeling. The Finance Manager will partner with service leaders to measure and drive improvement in financial performance, requiring a high level of judgment and a self-starter mentality to deliver financial results for the business and for Amazon as a whole.

Responsibilities

• Own financial partnership for an AWS service end to end, influencing business decisions that drive revenue, operating expense, and/or capital expenditures.
• Lead financial planning; build complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance.
• Support strategic new feature launches and ad-hoc requests from finance and business leadership.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements including automation and coordination with upstream and downstream organizations.
• Partner with finance teams across AWS to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• 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)
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AWS services
• Familiarity with financial modeling and analysis tools
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Full range of medical benefits
• Financial benefits including equity and sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package