Finance Manager, AWS Containers & Serveless Compute

Amazon • Seattle, WA

3d

About The Position

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business
partnering role with full P&L responsibility? Want to directly influence the
future of some of the most successful 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 business 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 Finance seeks a world class Finance Manager to be a key leader supporting
AWS Serveless Compute business.

This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business
partners across the AWS organization, including product managers, engineering
leaders, sales and business development leadership, and internal AWS teams to
drive thoughtful analysis and controllership.

The successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes
for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Service P&Ls,
Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, identify and quantify financial/operational
Risks and Opportunities (R&O) to the business, and drive ad-hoc business
projects.

This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background,
problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a
fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in people
management and thought leadership. This role has regular interaction with
various business units across Amazon and requires strong people skills.

Requirements

• 5+ 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 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• MBA, or CPA
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 5+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) 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)
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Responsibilities

• Build out and enhance P&L models, develop business insights and KPI dashboards, and lead ad hoc analyses.
• Support new business initiatives/products/feature launches; understand cost models and drive pricing decisions.
• Provide revenue deep analytics and communicate effectively to senior business team leaders.
• Take the lead in financial planning and analysis; building complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance, including short and long range financial/operational forecasts, and communicating results to senior management.
• Manage financial controllership, lead reviews of financial metrics, analyze variances, synthesize key business drivers, and communicate them to senior management in business terms and influence them through presenting actionable drivers.

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