Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Supply Chain Finance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Do you enjoy designing financial models, transforming data into information, and
using that information to influence business decisions? Amazon Web Services is
the leading provider of cloud computing services around the world and across
sectors. The AWS Supply Chain Finance team is looking for a passionate,
insightful, and results-oriented Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. This
role will present an opportunity to improve financial controllership processes
for the Procurement, Finance, and Engineering teams.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will play a critical role in AWS Supply Chain
Finance's FP&A and Month End Close (MEC) processes where you will work across
the entire AWS Supply Chain Finance organization to Dive Deep into variances and
leverage your superb communication skills to share insights to executive
leadership to shape strategic decisions. You will own the planning and tracking
of AWS Supply Chain's Opex to provide financial controllership and support for
business expansion.

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)

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
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes 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)

Responsibilities

• Own FP&A and Month End Close (MEC) process(es) from end-to-end ensuring variances are tracked down and insightfully explained to executive management (finance and business).
• Earn Trust across AWS Infrastructure Finance and partner FP&A teams to learn the business.
• Identify opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Challenge existing processes and Invent and Simplify to enable FP&A to scale with AWS' ambitious global growth.
• Perform control activities' to support Amazon's Governance, Risks and Compliances (GRCs)
• Develop ways to scale and automate existing opex tracking processes. Think big on solutions to eliminate manual processes.
• Ad hoc analysis requests. Working with ambiguous data and turning it into insight and information.

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, and parental leave

What This Job Offers

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