Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS Services Finance FP&A

About the position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the AWS Services FP&A team. The successful candidate will provide cross functional support across multiple teams and initiatives, developing key financial models and insights required by senior leadership to inform long-term strategic investment decisions regarding Services capacity planning and capex. This role will help drive better visibility and insight into the success and profitability of all Service businesses and be responsible for owning the AWS Services capex planning process, working with teams to reduce complexity and drive systemic automation and creating new tools and mechanisms that lead to more informed decision making from Services. The Sr. Financial Analyst position on this team is a high visibility, high breadth, and inclusive role that works very closely with AWS services finance teams, various AWS FP&A teams and the FinTech organization to provide insights to the AWS Services CEO, CFO and Services Finance leads on Services capacity and capex.

Responsibilities

• Be the key finance partner for Services capex supporting 200+ AWS Service business unit teams across AWS
• Own AWS Server capex, along with being able to convey the overall AWS story to business and finance leadership
• Manage critical capex and capacity processes, including monthly/quarterly financial reviews (MFRs), quarterly forecasts and planning cycles (short-term- and long-term)
• Think on behalf of all AWS Service finance teams to invent and simplify planning and reporting processes
• Proactively communicate across the AWS Service finance teams to coordinate a complex and interconnected series of deliverables

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), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• 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)
• 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 identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

Benefits

• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits