Senior Financial Analyst, EC2 Capacity Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

293d • $60,200 - $128,800

About The Position

Are you looking for that next BIG Finance opportunity? Want to directly influence the future of some of the fastest growing products in cloud computing? Join us at AWS Finance! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up businesses and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services - now widely known as cloud computing - based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform. AWS Services Finance seeks a Sr. Financial Analyst to join the EC2 Capacity and CapEx team, responsible for CapEx planning/analysis of the largest service in AWS, EC2. This position will work closely with finance and business leadership as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including Product Managers, Capacity Management, Supply Chain, Forecasting, and Economists to drive thoughtful analysis in the EC2 business. He or she will have the opportunity to lead and influence multiple, high-visibility aspects of managing EC2 capacity including long-term planning, operational controllership, capital efficiency analysis, and ongoing capital reporting and analysis. Additional responsibilities include ad-hoc business analysis support. This role requires a self-starter with strong financial modeling abilities, robust problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment. Strong ownership, curiosity, passion for diving deep, and a desire to learn are ideal fits for this role.

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)

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or CPA
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis 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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the financial analysis processes to support financial planning and close
• Partner with and proactively communicate across the AWS finance community to coordinate a complex and interconnected series of deliverables.
• Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements including automation and coordination with upstream and downstream organizations.
• Partner with finance teams across AWS to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.
• Write and present narratives and analysis of AWS Infrastructure capital for senior leadership.
• Lead large scale initiatives and financial controllership

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree