Finance Manager, AWS FP&A Lead

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Finance seeks a Finance Manager to lead AWS Marketing Finance Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and partner with Marketing Strategy and Operations (S&O). This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the fastest growing businesses at Amazon. This role will support the Worldwide AWS Marketing organization to help drive AWS growth by providing analytical insights to business/finance leaders and driving core financial processes. There are opportunities for strategic leadership, business metrics analysis, impactful financial analysis, and process improvement. This role has regular interaction with AWS Finance leadership and AWS Marketing Leadership in support of key decision-making by our Worldwide AWS Marketing business partners, who run re:Invent, AWS Summits, Developer Experience, Global Field Marketing, Demand Generation, Product Marketing, Analyst Relations, and more! The successful candidate will lead all critical FP&A deliverables, partner with Marketing Strategy and Operations, and will have the ability to manage multiple priorities. The right individual will have solid business acumen capable of driving results and improving processes. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial as well as the ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem solve, and prioritize.

Requirements

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• Bachelor's degree in BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field
• 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or CPA
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end FP&A function for AWS Marketing Finance, owning planning, forecasting, and analysis.
• Partner with the Marketing Strategy and Operations team to provide actionable financial insights that shape business priorities.
• Execute annual and quarterly strategic financial forecasts through coss-functional collaboration.
• Deliver insightful monthly financial reports to senior leadership to explain drivers of financial variances between actual and planned performance.
• Drive the Month-End Close process and timelines across the AWS Marketing Finance organization.
• Provide key strategic guidance around numerous high-impact workstreams, including marketing program investments, headcount expenses, capital allocation, revenue, and more.
• Utilize financial systems and AI to generate, analyze, and communicate financial insights.
• Spearhead standardization, streamlining, and improving processes.
• Be self-driven and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level