Finance Manager, AWS Sales, WWSO Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

5h

About The Position

Join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Finance team! We are looking for entrepreneurial, analytical, creative, flexible leaders to help us redefine the IT industry. If you want to join a fast-paced, innovative team responsible for driving the financial performance of a diverse business portfolio, this is the place for you! In this role, you’ll be at the center of driving AWS’s sales strategy, partnering across Worldwide Specialist Data & AI teams to deliver business insights, optimize investments, and drive revenue. You’ll collaborate with senior Sales, Business, Engineering, and Finance leaders on designing and implementing inspection frameworks to assess business performance and financial outcomes. You’ll build new mechanisms to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data, and you’ll providing financial insights that drive our day-to-day business and position us for future growth. You are a well-rounded performer and will play an impactful role on the team. You demonstrate excellent business judgment and problem solving, and possess strong attention to detail.

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
• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ 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
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Nice To Haves

• 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)
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• Experience with SQL or ETL

Responsibilities

• Building rhythm of the business processes that help business leaders understand progress to goals as well as strategic insights to guide overall direction
• Leading the financial support for existing Data & AI Business reviews (WBR, MBR etc.), providing key insights on progress toward goals, working with teams on get-to-green plans, and assessing future risks.
• Create and implement business mechanisms that are scalable to help the team make data-driven decisions
• Driving thought leadership to identify and implement solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes
• Collecting analyzing, and presenting data-driven research that challenges status quo and champion change
• Performing ad-hoc analysis proactively and present findings to senior leadership

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: Manager