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Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Capacity Finance Team

Amazon is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Capacity Finance Team in Seattle, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Manage financial models, capacity planning, and capex processes for AWS services as a Senior Financial Analyst.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the AWS Capacity team. The successful candidate will provide cross functional support across multiple teams and initiatives, developing key financial models and insights required by senior leadership to inform long-term strategic investment decisions regarding Services capacity planning and capex. This role will help drive better visibility and insight into the success and efficiency of all Service businesses and be responsible for owning the AWS Services capex month-end process, working with teams to reduce complexity and drive systemic automation and creating new tools and mechanisms that lead to more informed decision making from Services.

The Senior Financial Analyst position on this team is a high visibility, high breadth, and inclusive role that works very closely with AWS services finance teams, various AWS teams and the FinTech organization to provide insights to the AWS Services CEO, CFO and Services Finance leads on Services capacity and capex.

We are looking for a Finance leader to work collaboratively with various finance, business and tech partners, be comfortable in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous, results-oriented environment, influence the decisions of business and financial leadership through verbal and written communication, and have high standards for accuracy, logical reasoning skills, and strategic thinking.

Key job responsibilities
- Be the key finance partner for Services capex supporting 200+ AWS Service business unit teams across AWS
- Own AWS Server capex, along with being able to convey the overall AWS story to business and finance leadership
- Manage critical capex and capacity processes, including monthly/quarterly reviews, quarterly forecasts and planning cycles (short-term- and long-term)
- Think on behalf of all AWS Service finance teams to invent and simplify planning and reporting processes
- Proactively communicate across the AWS Service finance teams to coordinate a complex and interconnected series of deliverables

Basic qualifications

- 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
- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- 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)
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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