Senior Financial Analyst – AWS Industries, AWS Industries Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

5d

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member in
our AWS Industries Finance team. AWS Industries is committed to helping industry
customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to
meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from
their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire
industry.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work closely with business leaders to
develop financial models and analytical insights to assist in evaluating new
business concepts, turning insights into operational measurements, and
identifying paths to improve the overall planning and forecasting process. You
will also provide strategy support to the business team.

The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing
business owners and supporting strategic decision-making in a rapidly evolving
environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills,
ability to leverage AI, attention to detail, and an ability to manage multiple
projects effectively. This role has regular interaction with executives and
various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal
and communication skills. As a business-facing finance partner, this role
requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive partnership
at all levels of the organization.

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 applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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)
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer, or experience as a lean sensei

Responsibilities

• Present financial and business insights to senior management.
• Build financial models for revenue forecasting and sales productivity.
• Tighten internal controls for travel and program spending.
• Provide strategic partnership to key business initiatives and investments.
• Analyze detailed customer revenue trends including AWS service adoption and cost optimization.

Benefits

• 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