Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS GDSP Finance

$60,200 - $128,800/Yr

Amazon - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

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About the position

The AWS GDSP Finance Sr. Financial Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting the AWS organization by conducting financial analysis of complex private pricing deals. This high-visibility position involves collaboration with various teams, including sales, sales operations, business development, and service finance. The analyst will evaluate the economics of deals, assist in operational processes, and contribute to business expansion and planning/forecasting efforts. The role requires building financial models and tools to drive automation and improve internal controls while providing analytical insights into financial and operational performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Understand the various AWS Services, its economics and how it impacts the profitability of a customer.
• Actively provide our sales team with financial acumen and insights to positively influence private pricing deals.
• Drive financial controllership over private pricing deals by enforcing Amazon's Spending & Transaction Policy.
• Evaluate and refine financial models that calculate customer profitability.
• Effectively communicate ideas to diverse audiences.
• Own and oversee a specific process from a deals desk finance perspective.
• Provide leadership, guidance and implementation to drive process improvement.
• Possess the passion and demonstrated skills for developing relationships, processes and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work with minimal direction in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Requirements

• 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)

Nice-to-haves

• MBA, or CPA
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion
• Exceptional analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to build financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving.
• Strong judgment to understand different perspectives, manage conflicts and have backbone to drive progress and alignment, while fostering an environment of open dialogue
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
• Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel and providing recommendations based on results to senior management for strategic decision-making.

Benefits

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