Finance Manager, AWS Public Sector Sales Finance

$85,900 - $179,500/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The AWS Finance team is seeking analytical and entrepreneurial leaders to optimize financial performance across a diverse business portfolio. This role involves driving AWS's sales strategy in collaboration with various teams, including US Federal, Global Healthcare, Nonprofit, and Partner organizations. The position focuses on managing and transforming investment portfolios, building financial plans, and identifying growth opportunities while ensuring compliance and effective decision-making processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key finance partner to the US Federal, Global Healthcare and Nonprofit, and Partner teams, collaborating across executive leadership to analyze inputs and outputs, assess business performance, and optimize asset allocation.
• Develop and evolve complex financial models that analyze program- and portfolio-level revenue, profit, and ROI impacts.
• Build rhythm of the business processes that deliver ongoing insights and support day-to-day decision making.
• Engage and influence across the AWS Sales, Finance, and Operations hierarchy, collaborating with stakeholders to optimize our customer's experience, achieve common goals, and monitor risks.
• Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and develop new processes and controls as needed to support internal and external financial reporting requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ 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), 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
• 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
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• 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.

Benefits

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