Finance Manager, Elastic-Block-Store

Amazon.com, Inc.•Seattle, WA

41d

About The Position

Elastic-Block-Store (EBS) is one of AWS's foundational services. It provides scalable, high-performance block storage resources that can be used with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to support customer workloads and the ability to create and manage data retention policies via other services like AWS Backup and Snapshots. As a foundational service, EBS is used directly by external customers and indirectly as a key building block for more than 200 other internal AWS Services and Amazon. AWS Compute Services finance is seeking a Finance Manager to support strategic new product/feature launches, product and private pricing processes. This involves partnering with service GMs and engineering directors to provide data driven analysis, strategic decision support, financial planning, and enhanced controllership. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively with senior leaders and help leaders look around corners to identify risks and opportunities to growth and profitability. The candidate should be able to manage multiple and time sensitive deliverables across multiple functions that will require the ability to build strong business acumen and build strong business partnerships with stakeholders across multiple organizations.

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

Responsibilities

Manage all short and long-term financial objectives for the portfolio, supporting high-leadership team with finance KPIs and operational analytics
Drive the business to develop challenging goals, business strategy, and financial plans; and working with senior leadership team to deliver against these plans
Influencing the services product/feature roadmaps through business case analysis and strategic pricing modeling
Identify opportunities to improve our costs by finding and supporting engineering efficiencies and free-cash-flow opportunities
Perform ad-hoc analysis as needed and present findings to senior management.