Sr Financial Analyst, AWS Marketing Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

19h • $82,700 - $117,100 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketing Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to serve as a finance partner to senior marketing leaders across one of AWS's largest and fastest-growing investment areas. You will sit at the table with Directors and VPs, advising on marketing investment decisions across digital demand generation, events, sports marketing, and product marketing. You will own the financial narrative for your business partners: translating complex spend data into clear recommendations, challenging assumptions, and driving action that improves how AWS allocates its marketing dollars.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) experience.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with senior marketing leaders (Director/VP level) as their trusted finance advisor, providing data and analysis driven recommendations on investment decisions across your portfolio.
• Own monthly financial close, variance analysis, and quarterly forecasting for your business area. Proactively surface risks, opportunities, and recommendations.
• Understand and partner with accounting & FP&A to drive an effective month-end close process.
• Build and maintain financial models that drive investment decisions: scenario planning, and ROI-informed budget allocation.
• Translate financial data into the "so what" - present findings to senior stakeholders in language they can act on.
• Build systems and automations that reduce administrative overhead and increase the speed of financial decision-making across the team.
• Leverage SQL, Python, and AI tools to work with data at scale - speed and rigor matter equally.
• Manage approvals, purchase orders, and budget controllership with accuracy and ownership.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior