Finance Manager, AWS Database Services

$85,900 - $179,500/Yr

Amazon - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

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About the position

The Finance Manager for AWS Database Services at Amazon will be responsible for comprehensive financial support, including P&L management, operational and financial planning, customer analyses, and strategic growth analyses. This role is pivotal in influencing business decisions that drive revenue and operational efficiency, while also supporting new feature pricing and modeling.

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

Nice-to-haves

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) 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

Benefits

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