Senior Financial Analyst, AWS World-Wide Public Sector (WWPS) Finance

Amazon•Arlington, VA

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About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its Public Sector Sales Finance team. This role will be the single threaded Finance leader for one of the business verticals in Public Sector, and will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to support and drive these dynamic and fast-growing organizations. The candidate will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting top-line trends to monitor state of the business health, deep-diving variances to uncover operating insights, collaborating on strategic investment decisions to optimize financial returns, establishing/enhancing governance mechanisms, and driving planning and forecasting rhythms. Successful candidates will have a high degree of intellectual curiosity, a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale, the ability to influence senior stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills and the capacity to prioritize effectively while dealing with ambiguity.

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 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree, or MBA
Knowledge of Tableau
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

Collaborate with senior business stakeholders on revenue and strategy investment decisions that balance growth objectives with financial returns
Invent and design scalable detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health
Deep dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies
Own planning and forecasting for the business and influence business stakeholders to ensure initiatives and any get to green plans are aligned with broader organizational objectives
Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments
Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implications