Senior Finance Manager, AWS Sustainability Finance

Amazon • Boston, MA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Sustainability Finance team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead financial strategy and controllership for Amazon's Carbon Neutralization program. This role partners directly with business teams to define investment strategy, build financial models to evaluate carbon neutralization pathways, drive free cash flow optimization, and develop scalable frameworks for capital allocation decisions across a rapidly evolving carbon marketplace. This work is central to Amazon's Climate Pledge, making it a high-visibility, high-impact opportunity at the intersection of finance and sustainability.

This role operates in a rapidly evolving market segment and requires strong financial controllership to evaluate complex tradeoffs and facilitate stakeholder alignment on critical investment decisions. The ideal candidate is a versatile leader who proactively expands beyond core responsibilities, navigates ambiguity, and delivers measurable business results. They must stay current on carbon market trends and regulatory developments and be effective at partnering with senior business leaders to translate sustainability goals into financial outcomes.
The Senior Finance Manager must be a skilled communicator who drives strategy through both formal and informal channels, with a proven track record of influencing senior executives and delivering results across geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams. They will serve as a trusted financial advisor, consistently meeting commitments while enabling business partners to achieve their objectives.
The Senior Finance Manager will also bring experience in designing and implementing financial policies, controls, and processes that safeguard the integrity of Amazon's financial reporting while driving organizational efficiency and scalability.

Requirements

• 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 10+ years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience
• 8+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 8+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 5+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 8+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 8+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
• 5+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
• MBA, or CPA

Responsibilities

• Own financial model for neutralization pathway evaluation
• Manages end-to-end P&L and reporting on business performance, including building long-range financial forecasts that integrate plan data with actuals to track progress against commitments
• Partner with Sustainability, Science, Policy, and Operations teams to define and pressure-test strategy through rigorous financial analysis
• Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews with VP+ stakeholders, providing clear narratives on financial performance, risks, and opportunities
• Design and maintain controllership mechanisms for carbon marketplace transactions
• Develop scalable capital allocation frameworks to evaluate and prioritize investment decisions
• Drive free cash flow optimization by identifying cost efficiencies and improving financial processes
• Design and enforce financial policies and controls that protect the integrity of Amazon's financial records and increase organizational efficiency

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: Senior